Three sons of Sufi Mohammad, chief of the banned outfit TNSM (pictured above), had filed a petition contending that they were innocent and there were no grounds to detain them. - AP/File photo

PESHAWAR The Peshawar High Court (PHC) granting bail to three sons of Sufi Mohammad, chief of the banned outfit Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), has ordered their release.

Sufi Mohammad's sons, including Rizwanullah, Hayatullah and Ziaullah, filed a petition against their illegal detention and the PHC approved their petition.

Sufi's sons were taken into custody by security forces on July 27 under 3MPO.

A bench of the Peshawar High Court, consisting of Justice Ejaz Afzal, declared the arrest of Sufi sons under 3 MPO as unconstitutional.

On Tuesday Peshawar High Court reserved its judgment in a writ petition filed by three sons of TNSM Chief Maulana Sufi Mohammad, challenging their detention under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO).

The petitioners, Ziaullah, Rizwanullah and Hayatullah, along with Sufi Mohammad, were arrested from their residence in Sethi Town here on July 26 by law-enforcement agencies under Section 3 of MPO on the orders of Peshawar DCO Sahibzada Anees.

The petitioners' counsel Mohammad Atlas Khan contended that they were innocent and the administration had no grounds to detain them under the MPO.

He claimed that the impugned order of the DCO was illegal and unconstitutional, adding the petitioners were law-abiding citizens and there was no threat to public order from them.—Online