PESHAWAR, June 28: Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan on Thursday said he would shortly look into the dumping of the three missing persons’ bodies in Haripur district.

The incident was brought to the chief justice’s notice by a lawyer when he along with Justice Mian Fasihul Mulk was hearing a case.

Advocate Ghulam Nabi Khan said the three missing persons the cases of whose enforced disappearance were being heard by the court had been killed in custody and that their bodies were dumped in Haripur.

He said he was the lawyer of one of the three missing persons, Hasan Dad, who was picked up by police and security forces from his poultry farm at Sheikh Janan area in Swabi district on February 2, 2011.

The lawyer said the postmortem report revealed that the three victims’ necks had been found broken and that they all had been killed by injections of poison.

According to him, the bodies of Mohammad Riaz from Mardan, Hassan Dad from Swabi and Abdul Hanan from Mohmand Agency were recovered from different areas in Haripur on Wednesday.

The chief justice assured him that he would take note of the matter shortly.

Last year, missing person Hasan Dad’s father, Ramdad Khan, had filed a habeas corpus petition with the high court. The petition was disposed of on March 22, 2012, after all intelligence agencies, security forces and police expressed ignorance about Mr Hasan’s whereabouts.

The court ordered the petitioner to register an FIR with the relevant police station against his son’s kidnapping.

Lawyer Ghulam Nabi said Mr Hasan was picked up by a joint team of police and security forces in front of a large number of his villagers.

On June 26, the high court took up around 170 cases of missing persons.

Mr Ghulam Nabi, lawyer for several petitioners, said the provincial government had claimed that 1,035 detainees had been freed by security forces, but the claim should be verified. —Bureau Report