PESHAWAR, Oct 19: The Peshawar High Court on Friday disposed of a habeas corpus petition after the SHO of the Kohat Saddar police station tendered unconditional apology to a detenu and his grand mother.

A bench of the high court, comprising Justice Tariq Pervaiz, took exception to the illegal detention of Akhter Razik, and observed that action should be taken against the police official.

However, the SHO prayed to the court to forgive him as he   had committed a mistake and would never make such a mistake again.

The court provided him whit some time for convincing the detenu and his grand mother, Sherin, to accept his apology.

Advocate Bashir Khan Tanghi, who represented the petitioner, stated that it had been proved that Razik had been kept in illegal detention.

As the SHO kept requesting the woman to forgive him, she accepted his apology and informed the court that she had forgiven the SHO.

The petition was filed by Khan Razik, father of the detenu. The petitioner said the police official had detained his son illegally under the presser of a woman with whom he had had some financial dispute.  

The high court deputed an official to visit the lock-up   of the police station to see whether the son of the petitioner had been detained illegally.

However, the police released the detenu when they came to know about the visit of the court official. The court then summoned the SHO to explain the matter.

HCP ALLOWED: Allowing a habeas corpus petition, the Peshawar High Court on Friday ordered release of a man, arrested by the tribal administration of the FR Kohat region.

A bench of the court, comprising Justice Nasirul Mulk, asked the assistant political agent of the FR Kohat region as to why Gulistan had been jailed.

The agent claimed that the Gulistan had been arrested two  years ago under section 40 of the Frontier Crimes Regulations and had later been released on bail after furnishing sureties.

He claimed that now the people who had offered sureties on his behalf had withdrawn their sureties, due to which he had been arrested again.

The court directed the detenu, who was present in the courtroom, to furnish fresh sureties, and ordered the administration not to create hindrance in his release.

Advocate Said Rehman Khan represented the petitioner in the court. He stated that the detenu had been shifted to the tribal area without complying with section 86-A of the Criminal Procedure Code.