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PESHAWAR, March 26: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court here on Wednesday admitted to full hearing a writ petition of a woman, requesting the court to issue directives for registration of an FIR against a police party which she said had killed her son in a fake encounter.
The bench, comprising Justice Nasirul Mulk and Justice Ijaz Afzal, directed the provincial government and the local police to file comments on the petition within a fortnight.
The petitioner, Ms Parwara, has claimed that her son, Sadar Khan, was killed by a police party in Mathra area on Feb 22. She added that the police claimed that the deceased was killed in an encounter during which three police officials were also killed.
The petitioner stated that the police declared her son a proclaimed offender, whereas in fact he was neither a criminal nor a proclaimed offender. She added that the policemen were killed by the enraged inhabitants of the area when they came to know of the death of an innocent person at the hands of the police.
She stated that the police had registered its FIR against the area inhabitants as well as her son, but was reluctant to register her complaint against the police party, including an ASI Astham Khan.
Despite repeated requests, she added, the police had not registered her complaint and instead pressured her not to pursue the matter.
SENTENCE UPHELD: The Peshawar High Court here on Wednesday upheld death penalty awarded to an appellant by a trial court for killing his brother-in-law.
A two-member bench, comprising the chief justice of the court, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan and Justice Ijazul Hassan, dismissed an appeal filed by Syed Kamal, and ruled that the prosecution had proved its case without any doubt.
The appellant, resident of Katlang village, Mardan district, had killed his brother-in-law, Sherdullah Khan, on Feb 20, 2000, on a petty dispute concerning a bicycle. He was sentenced to death by the district and sessions judge, Mardan, on Nov 4, 2002.
