KARACHI, Sept 5: The additional district and sessions judge-II, South, Mohammad Azim, on Wednesday summoned the station house officer (SHO) of the Defence police station on the complaint of Mohammad Iqbal Kazmi on Sept 10.

The complainant had submitted an application on Aug 9 to the court of district and sessions judge, South, Zaheeruddin S. Leghari, stating that his wife and her cousin Mohammad Imran Shehzad were coming to the Sindh High Court on Aug 1 in an auto-rickshaw when some unidentified men intercepted and kidnapped them in a Prado from a road near the Defence Central Library on the Sunset Boulevard.

The kidnappers, they said, had tortured and injured them with a sharp-edged weapon and later dropped them in the Seaview area. He said the SHO had refused to register a case.

The court on Aug 11 summoned the SHO but he submitted a written explanation in his defence.

He stated that Shazia alias Sadia Kazmi and Imran Shehzad, son of Mohammad Islam, came to the police station on Aug 1 and said they wanted to go to hospital for treatment. The duty officer referred them to the Jinnah Hospital with a police letter for medical examination and treatment. After that none of them came to the police station for lodging a report.

In their arguments, Iqbal Kazmi and his wife said that the police statement was false, adding that the police officials had simply refused to register the case. They said both

Sadia Kazmi and Mohammad Imran Shehzad visited the police station on Aug 1, Aug 2 and Aug 8, but the police officials did not pay any heed to their requests.

The court after hearing the arguments had directed the SHO to register a case according to the applicant’s statement.

Mr Kazmi had submitted a contempt application to the court saying that the SHO was not complying with a court order to register a case against Sindh Home Adviser Waseem Akhtar, DSP Zahid Hussain Shah, SI Munir Chandio and Hanif Memon for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and torture of his wife and her cousin.

The SHO was again summoned to the court on Aug 18.