HYDERABAD, Sept 21: Justice Amir Hani Muslim of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, on Friday issued show-cause notices to the district police officer, Dadu, and the TPO concerned for flouting the orders of the court, passed on Sept 19.

The court ordered to serve the notices through the AIGP, Hyderabad, as the officials avoided to appear before the court on Friday at 11am despite the directives of the court, which were communicated to them on Thursday evening by the office of Sindh AAG Masood A. Noorani.

Fixing the matter for Sept 23, the court directed the AIGP to ensure the attendance of the DPO and the TPO concerned along with the record pertaining to a murder case and the progress, the police had made in the matter.

The Dadu DPO has been asked to bring the record showing action, if any, he has taken against police officers who were negligent.

The officials were required to be present in person in connection with a constitutional petition filed by Ganhwar, resident of Johi taluka, Dadu district.

The petitioner had said his son, Basheer Ahmad, had been killed and Gulab and Mumtaz injured in an armed attack by eleven persons in his village on July 28.

The body and the injured remained on the place of the incident till the next morning when the Qasbo police came and gave them a certificate, and took the injured and the body to a hospital.

The petitioner had identified 11 persons. He said the assailants had threatened him not to lodge the FIR otherwise his other sons would also be killed.

He said the bandits had also kidnapped his nephew, Nabban.

He said the police detained his son, Gulab, for seven hours but did not take action against the accused, and feared his nephew might be killed as the police were not trying to recover him.

On Sept 19, ASI Liaquat Ali told the court eight of the eleven accused had been arrested.