KARACHI, June 29: The Sindh High Court asked the Thatta district and sessions judge to depute a judicial magistrate to conduct a raid on the Jhirk police station to find out whether two people were detained there unlawfully.
A division bench comprising Justices Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Zia Perwez ordered that the alleged detainees be produced before the court on July 1 if found in illegal confinement.
The bench passed the order on a writ petition moved by Faquir Mohammad through Advocate Umar Farooq. The petitioner alleged that his nephews, Faiyaz Ahmad and Pervez Khan, were picked up by some Jhirk policemen from Mauripur on June 25.
They were taken to the Jhirk police station and had been detained there since without being produced in a court. They were not involved in any offence, he submitted. On a petition moved by the father and the mother of two appellants through Advocate Maqboolur Rehman, the bench, meanwhile, issued notices to the advocate-general and the superintendent of the Central Prison, Karachi, for July 7.
Petitioners Rukhsana Farhat, mother of Sharib Farooqui, and Muhammad Raees, father of Hafiz Zubair submitted that their sons, both activists of Harkatul Mujahideen Al Alami, were convicted and sentenced by an anti-terrorism court in April 2003 in the US bomb blast case.
The petitioners alleged that they had been tortured by the jail authorities in solitary confinement. They authorities had, they further alleged, threatened to kill them. They apprehended that their sons might be killed in a fake encounter during shifting from Karachi.
The petitioners requested the court to restrain the authorities from shifting their sons and also order their production to record their statement. They also sought an inquiry by a district and sessions judge into their allegations.
Another division bench consisting of Justices Mushir Alam and Mohammad Sadiq Leghari issued the prosecution a notice in an application by a Khuddamul Islam activist Iftekhar Ahmed seeking his treatment outside jail. He said he was suffering from an ailment that could not be treated in confinement at the Karachi Central Prison.
DALIA CASE: A division bench of the Sindh High Court comprising Justice Musheer Alam and Justice Muhammad Sadiq Leghari on Tuesday put off the hearing of an application by Younus Dalia till July 6 on request of the standing counsel, S. Tarique Ali, who sought time to seek information and call for record, adds APP.
The applicant, former chief of the Habib Bank, sought quashment of a case pending against him before the special court for offences in banking circle. The applicant was accused of releasing mortgaged property in connivance with the owners who obtained a credit facility of Rs35 million.