LAHORE, March 11: The Lahore High Court ordered the arrest of the SHO and two landlords of Gojra, Mandi Bahauddin district, for keeping a young woman in wrongful confinement as an unpaid domestic servant and beating up her and her brother.
Javed was recovered by a court bailiff from the Gojra police station following a habeas corpus petition. He submitted before Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif that he was beaten up by Gojra SHO Adil Shamshad. He was handed over to the police by the two landlords when he went to their residence to meet his sister, Ismat.
The court ordered his medical check-up and Javed was found to have 23 injuries on his body. Another bailiff was deputed to recover Ismat from the landlords’ custody. When produced in the court, however, Ismat denied that she was being kept in custody against her will or was not being paid her wages.
Javed said that his sister was exonerating the SHO and the landlords under threat. The court sent her to Darul Aman for a few days, during which no-one was allowed to see her.
In her statement to the court on Monday, she said she had been forced to work for the landlords for five years without wages and that she and her brother (Javed) were beaten up when they demanded any payment from them.
The court ordered the arrest of the SHO and the landlords, who were present in the courtroom, and directed the police to produce them before the SSP of Mandi Bahauddin for registration of a case in the light of Ismat’s allegations. The inspector-general of police was asked to have the case investigated by the crimes range police as the local police had been under the influence of the accused.
PLEA DISMISSED: The Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed a broker’s plea for cancellation of his agreement with the Lahore Stock Exchange and for restraining the LSE from taking any action against him.
Appellant Iftikhar Shafi, according to the LSE, defaulted on discharging his obligations to the bourse even after entering an agreement that he would clear all outstanding liabilities caused by the May 2000 crash. He delivered two postdated cheques for Rs100 million in pursuance of the agreement. Total outstanding liabilities, according to the LSE, amounted to Rs155 million approximately.
Mr Shafi, however, had second thoughts and moved a civil suit for cancellation of the agreement and cheques and for an injunction to restrain the LSE from taking any action against him. The civil court dismissed his suit.
The broker approached the high court against the civil court decision. The appeal was heard by a division bench, which dismissed it after hearing Advocates Syed Ali Zafar for the exchange and Abid Aziz Sheikh for the appellant.