HYDERABAD, May 14: The Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit bench directed the police on Friday not to shift a detained person out of the city and produce him before the court on May 18.

The bench, comprising justices Ghulam Rabbani and Mohammad Mujeebullah Siddiqui, held an urgent hearing of an application filed by the mother of the detained man, Hafiz Rafi Mustafa, seeking immediate hearing of the case as well as production of the detained man before the court.

The mother, Shahida Naz, had earlier filed a constitutional petition, praying the court to direct the home secretary as well as the provincial police officer not to hand over her son to any foreign country or authority.

Rafi was arrested in October 2003 from Karachi in an Explosive Substance Act case and granted bail on April 8 by the Sindh High Court.

On May 12, the Latifabad B-section police produced her son before a civil judge for obtaining remand in an attempted murder case lodged in 2000 in which two persons were named while the third was suspected to be Rafi. He was remanded to police custody till May 15.