KARACHI, June 7: A division bench of the Sindh High Court put on Friday the respondents on notice for June 10 in a plaint challenging detention of four persons, from whose family farmland decomposed pieces of human body, suspected to be of American journalist Daniel Pearl’s, were recovered.

The bench comprised the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court, Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad, and Justice Musheer Alam.

Counsel Khawaja Naveed Ahmed has moved the petition on behalf of Najma Mehmood, wife of Mehmood Fattani one of the four detained persons.

The petitioner has claimed that her husband, his two brothers and their brother-in-law were arrested by the armed police in a raid on her family house during the night of May 28/29.

She has complained that ten days have passed but until now neither police have released them, nor have they produced them in a court of law.

The four persons are in illegal custody of the investigating team of the Daniel Pearl case, she has claimed.

The petitioner and the wives of other detainees and mothers of the detainees have not been allowed to meet them. They have been kept in the CIA Centre, Saddar, Karachi, under the supervision of Inspector Hameedullah Memon and DSP Syed Abdul Rasheed Shah, the petitioner claimed.

It is her case that she and the detainees are entitled to know the grounds of their detention, place of their detention and material against them in the hands of the detaining authority.