HYDERABAD, June 17: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, here the other day issued notices to the home secretary, district police officer, superintendent of the central jail, SHO of the Bhittai Naggar police station and the Sindh additional advocate-general for June 25.

The notices were issued on a constitutional petition filed by a councillor of the union council of Qasimabad taluka, challenging the detention of his brother, Nisar Ahmed Keerio, an alleged activist of the banned Tehrik-i-Jafria Pakistan, under the 1960 Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance.

Advocate Syed Javed Bukhari represented the petitioner.

The petitioner claimed that there was no complaint against his brother at any police station of the district or outside the district and added that his brother had never been an activist of any group, political party or of the banned Tehrik-i-Jafria Pakistan, as alleged in the impugned order.

The petitioner said Nisar Keerio was sent to jail on June 12 on the ground of having been associated with the banned organization.

He said the Bhittai Naggar police station on a vague report confined his brother in jail after the home secretary issued the MPO on May 11.

He further said the relatives of the detainee were disallowed meeting with him in the jail.

The petitioner’s counsel argued in the petition that the home secretary had issued the order illegally as there was no specific allegation against his client’s brother.

He disputed the contents of the impugned MPO, saying that the name of the detainee’s father was incorrect and his address was also incomplete.

He informed the court that the detainee was mentally unsound and was under treatment of different specialist doctors and psychiatrist, having remained admitted at the Sir C.J. Institute of Psychiatry.

He said no evidence or charge was mentioned in the MPO which could form the basis of the impugned order to put the detainee in jail and added that the home secretary also did not consider the fact that the detainee was mentally unfit.

He prayed the court to declare the impugned MPO illegal and without any lawful authority and that the detainee’s relatives should be allowed to meet him in jail.