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HYDERABAD, Jan 7: A man who was detained at the Anti-Car Lifting Cell for the last eight months without any record was recovered by Civil Judge Asim Saeed Lodhi here on Wednesday.
Mr Lodhi was directed for the raid by the district and sessions judge of Hyderabad, who is also the director of the Human Rights Board. Ahmad Khan Chandio had submitted an application before the court, stating therein that his son was picked up by the Tando Ghulam Ali police on May 9, 2003. He said he had sent applications to higher authorities for his recovery but to no avail.
The in charge, ACLC, Zulfikar Arain, was present when the raid was conducted but he could not explain why the man was kept at the lockup by the Qasimabad police.
The judge released the detainee who told him that he was being held in wrongful detention for the last eight months. The judge directed the applicant, detainee and the ACLC in charge to appear before the district and sessions judge on Jan 8.
BAIL GRANTED: Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, here on Wednesday granted Rs500,000 bail to former Sindh land utilization secretary Ramesh M. Udeshi in a case of taking away 163 official files.
The case was lodged by the assistant director, Anti- Corruption Establishment, Karachi, on Feb 28, 1998, alleging the accused had taken away 163 files of allotments/conversion/exchange of estate land on the pretext that they were required by chief minister's secretariat. But he neither handed them over to the CM secretariat nor returned them.
Earlier, his bail plea was rejected by trial court, special judge, anti-corruption (provincial) on Aug 27, 2002. Applicant's counsel Noor Nabi Memon argued that he was implicated in the case due to departmental intrigue and the FIR was lodged after a delay of four years which damaged the credibility of prosecution story. He said that trial court had erroneously rejected bail application of accused.
Assistant Advocate General Abdul Rasheed Qureshi opposed grant of bail on the ground that accused was also involved in some other cases. He said that the files pertained to valuable plots in Karachi worth billions of rupees.
