HYDERABAD, Oct 11: Twelve people, who were illegally detained at the Hussainabad Police Station, were produced before the district and sessions judge Hyderabad on Thursday and allowed to go wherever they liked.

On an application filed by Raheem Bux Solangi before the district and sessions judge of Hyderabad a couple of days ago, the sessions judge had appointed civil judge and judicial magistrate-VI Karamuddin Junejo as the raid commissioner, who raided the Hussainabad police station and recovered 12 people, who had been detained at the police station without any record.

The detained men were Ghulam Nabi, Tahir Bux, Mohammad Riaz, Allah Wasayo, Javed Ahmed, Mohammad Arshad, Saleem, Amjad, John, Nadeem, Boota and Zulfiqar.

In his report, the raid commissioner submitted that there was no entry on the record of the police station of the arrest of the detained men.

The district and sessions judge allowed the detained men to go wherever they liked and allowed the applicant Rahim Bux Solangi to institute legal proceedings in the case.

Meanwhile, the civil and judicial magistrate-X remanded Ms Amina alias Maria and her husband Rafique Bengali in police custody up to October 17, in the kidnapping case of a three-day-old baby girl, Dua.

Dua was kidnapped from Bhittai Hospital on August 19. Maria and her husband were arrested by Hyderabad police in Karachi last week. The other accused in the case, Safia and Jamila, were remanded in judicial custody for six days.

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