ISLAMABAD, Sept 6 Police officials said here on Sunday they had received evidences against former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf relating to detention of superior court judges and their families in their houses after proclamation of emergency on Nov 3, 2007.

The evidences were submitted by the complainant, Advocate Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam Ghuman, in reply to a letter sent to him by Secretariat police on August 27 seeking evidence for registering an FIR against the former president.

The evidences include newspaper clippings, videos of news channels and affidavits of more than 20 lawyers of the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court and Rawalpindi and Islamabad district courts.

Advocate Ghuman told this correspondent that press clippings were from Nov 11 issue of newspapers containing details about PPP chairperson Banazir Bhutto having been stopped near the Judges' Colony while heading towards the house of chief justice to meet him and clippings of reports in Nov 22 issue of newspapers about police stopping Justice (retd) Wajhiuddin from moving towards the CJ's house to meet him, clippings of reports about police baton-charging and intercepting groups of lawyers and representatives of civil society trying to meet CJ on different occasions.

Other clippings, he said, were about the CJ being denied permission to come out of his residence and move towards the Supreme Court on Nov 22.

He said he had also submitted the video of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's first speech in National Assembly on March 24 in which he had said “I announce release of the detained judges.”

Advocate Ghuman claimed that police had approached the Registrar of the Supreme Court with a request to arrange statements of the judges who had been detained in their houses after the proclamation of emergency.