KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Sindh Home Secretary, IG Police Sindh and Investigation Officer of Korangi police station, Karachi, on a petition seeking the quashment of the kidnapping for ransom case lodged against Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi Chief Afaq Ahmed in 2001.

A division bench, comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed & Justice Imam Bux Baloch, was hearing the petition filed by Afaq Ahmed and Syed Iqbal Kazmi, representative of Human Rights Commission for South Asia.

They approached the SHC to seek quashment of alleged false kidnapping for ransom case lodged in 2001 in Karachi. They impleaded Sindh Home Secretary, IG Police Sindh & Investigation Officer of PS Korangi, Karachi, as respondents.

The petitioners submitted during the hearing of a constitutional petition an IG Police Sindh report, confirming no criminal case was pending against him except nine in which he was already acquitted.

The stated on September 28, 2011 Sindh Home Department put MQM-Haqiqi Chief under detention for 30 days under Maintenance of Public Order after bail was granted by SHC.

Kazmi stated detention of Afaq under MPO and subsequent arrest in a ten-year-old case showed malafide intentions of the Sindh government.

He stated the action was taken at the behest of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to bar political activities by Afaq Ahmed, who was in jail for seven years during which many of his activists were either killed or languishing in prison in false criminal cases.