KARACHI, May 28: On the directive of a sessions court, a bailiff raided the Darakshan police station on Monday and recovered a man apparently kept there in wrongful confinement for three days.

The bailiff got the victim released on a personal bond since the police failed to produce any solid evidence to justify his detention and bound the police, including the SHO, and the applicant side to appear before the additional district and sessions court (south) on Tuesday.

The head bailiff, Muddasir Hussain, told Dawn that he along with the applicant and his lawyer raided the police station and found Mohammad Ishtiaq confined in a lock-up.

The duty officer was unable to furnish any FIR, however, he produced an entry under Section 54 (when police may arrest without warrant) of the criminal procedure code (CrPC) made on 12pm on Monday, he added.

The bailiff further said that the entry was highly doubtful because the applicant party said that the detainee was picked up on May 25 while the victim also said that he had been detained for the past three days.

The head bailiff would submit his report on Tuesday before a sessions court.

Mohammad Ishaq moved a habeas corpus application under Section 491 (power to issue directions of the nature of a habeas corpus) of the CrPC in court and submitted that his brother was picked up by the police in Naleem Colony on May 25.

He contented that the victim had unlawfully been detained at the Darakshan police station and prayed to the court for the recovery of the detainee.

After a preliminary hearing, the additional district and sessions judge (south) directed the head bailiff to carry out a raid on the information provided by the applicant and recover the detainee if found in wrongful confinement.

Warrants reissued

A court reissued on Monday warrants for the arrest of two leaders of the banned People’s Aman Committee and an alleged member of the proscribed BLA in illicit weapons cases.

The court of a judicial magistrate had issued non-bailable warrants for Uzair Baloch, Noor Mohammad alias Baba Ladla and Rehmatullah a couple of days ago and directed the investigating officer to arrest them and produce them in court on May 28.

However, when the matter was taken up for hearing before a judicial magistrate (west) on Monday the IO failed to produce them.

The court reissued warrants with the direction to arrest the suspects and produce them till June 11.

The CID police claimed to have arrested Saifullah Bugti, Shamsuddin Bugti and Abdul Ghaffar Bugti said to be BLA ‘militants’ in the Shershah area on May 7 and claimed that explosive stuff and illicit weapons were found in their possessions.

The suspects were charge-sheeted while banned PAC leaders were named as absconders on the basis of confessional statements of two detained suspects who admitted before a magistrate that Rehmatullah had been supplying arms and ammunition to them from Balochistan since long and they delivered the same to Noor Mohammad and Uzair Baloch.

A case was registered against the suspects under Section 4/5 of the Explosive Substance Act while the CID also individually booked the suspects under Section 13-D of the Arms Ordinance.