QUETTA, Dec 18: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court comprising Chief Justice Ahmed Khan Lashari and Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani allowed additional time to the deputy attorney general on Thursday for submitting parawise comments on behalf of an investigation agency in the case of a missing person.

Petitioner Khan Bibi informed the court that personnel of the agency had arrested her son Khan Mohammad on August 2 this year from his public call office at Alamo chowk in Quetta and requested it to order his release.

The provincial home secretary submitted that Khan Mohammad was not in police custody. The deputy attorney general, however, sought time to file parawise comments at the next hearing.

On another petition filed by Tayyaba Bibi for recovery of her husband Mohammad Azim Shah, the interior ministry informed the court that the Federal Investigation Aagency (FIA) and Islamabad police worked under the ministry but Azim Shah was not in their custody.