KARACHI, Sept 6: The Sindh High Court issued notices to deputy attorney general, advocate-general Sindh, IG Police Sindh and others for Sept 13 on a petition against alleged detention of Abdul Rehman alias Rehman Dakait by the law-enforcement agencies.

Rehman's maternal aunt Ms Zubeda alleged in her fresh petition that former in charge of LTF, SP Chudhary Mohammad Aslam, Inspector Sarwar Khan and sub-inspector Aziz Ahmed Sheikh had forced her to withdraw the petition against detention of Rehman, and that he would be killed if petition was not withdrawn.

She said respondents did not fulfil their promise to show detainee as arrested despite withdrawal of the petition and now they have shown him as an absconder.

Her counsel Omer Sial expressed apprehension that ex-officials of LTF intend to kill Rehman in fake encounter as they had attempted in Rasool Bux Brohi case as there was reward on the arrest of detainee alive or dead.

He also accused the respondents of filing false sworn affidavits in court to the effect that the detainee was not in their custody.

Insisting that Rehman is still in the custody of the respondents, he said the same is being concealed as SP Chudhary Mohammad Aslam is under arrest for the murder of Rasool Bux Brohi in fake encounter as Supreme Court has taken suo moto action in this matter.

He also feared that life of detainee is in grave danger and he is likely to be inflicted harm by the LEA. The court was prayed to issue rule nisi for production of detainee in chamber as it gravely apprehended that if matter is taken up in open court, the respondents would frustrate the raid by removing him from secret place where the detainee is being kept.

In the petition, LEAs were accused of arresting Rehman from Quetta on June 18, with his brother-in-law Wajid, daughter Atiqa 11, and his son Atique, 8, and keeping him at an undisclosed location without producing him in any court of law and obtaining his remand.

—PPI/APP