KARACHI, Feb 12: A division bench of the Sindh High Court comprising Justice Azizullah M. Memon and Justice Arshad Noor Khan on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of a case of a missing man, Ahmed Ali, till Feb26.The adjournment came after Additional Advocate-General Abbas Ali sought time for filing copies of relevant police documents, including the statements of witnesses recorded by the investigation officer.
On Tuesday, when the hearing resumed, counsel for the petitioner Chaudhry Mohammad Iqbal raised an objection to the stand taken by the police officials that the FIR about the missing man was registered and investigation made and the case stood ‘closed’ but the relevant papers giving the reasons for such a case were not yet filed in court.
The AAG sought seven days for filing all the relevant police papers, which was granted by the bench and hearing adjourned till 26 Feb.
Petitioner Humaira Ali had approached the SHC for the recovery of her husband, Ali Mohammad. She had submitted that some armed policemen and law-enforcement agencies personnel in plainclothes entered their house in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Block 6 on the midnight of May 5, 2004 and took away her husband and valuables, including a laptop computer and a camera.
She filed an application to seek the whereabouts of her missing husband before the DIG investigation and the TPO of Gulshan-i-Iqbal on May 11, 2004. She also appealed to the SHC chief justice on May 13, 2004, but the whereabouts of the missing man remained unknown. An FIR (522/04) was registered at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal police station.
She complained that DSP Mazhar Mashwani of the CID/ATW (antiterrorism wing) in Lea Market harassed her when she approached him.
She moved the SHC submitting that the missing man was also the father of six minor children and his abduction was in violation of the Constitution and against of the Declaration of Human Rights 1948.
She prayed to the court to help recover the detenus and if he was named in any case, he be tried.
Karo-kari couple
A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the AAG, the SHO of Sajawal police station, the Thatta DPO and others while hearing a case of a newly-wed couple, declared Karo-kari by their parents.
Fatima, a convert to Islam, and her husband Mohammad Jumman Thahim approached the SHC to seek protection against being made a victim of honour killing.
They submitted that they solemnized their marriage without any pressure. The father of petitioner Fatima, Birbal Rathore, had lodged an FIR (10/2008 u/s 365/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code) at the Sajawal police station naming petitioner Jumman and his two brothers Hanif and Ali Akber for kidnapping her daughter.
They further submitted that their parents had declared them Karo-kari and tried to kill them. —PPI