KARACHI, March 6: The Sindh High Court issued notices on Thursday on a writ petition by the mother of the detained accused in the US consulate police post firing case.

Ms Majeeda said besides Zulfiqar, her sons Iftikhar and Shahid had also been taken into custody by the police, allegedly for investigation. She also was being harassed on the same pretext, she alleged.

A division bench, consisting of Justice Mohammed Roshan Essani and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, directed that notices be issued to the respondent home and police departments for March 21.

Zulfiqar, who has been named accused in two first information reports lodged by the police, is on remand till March 8 under a court order for interrogation and investigation, particularly into the whereabouts of another accused in the case.

Undertaking: The water and sanitation department of the city government assured on Thursday the Sindh High Court that it would provide water connection to Sindh High Court Employees Cooperative Housing Society within four months, adds APP.

The undertaking was given before a division bench, comprising Justice Mohammed Roshan Essani and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, which was hearing a constitutional petition filed by Shaikh Shahid Imam, Honorary Secretary of the SHCECHS, against the KWSB’s (now W&S department of the city government) refusal to provide water connection to the Society.

When the petition came up for hearing, Najam-i-Alam Siddiqui, Superintending Engineer, Water Trunk Main, appeared in the court on notice and agreed to provide the water connection.

As the petitioner did not press the petition after this statement by the respondent, the bench disposed of the petition ordering that if water connection was not provided in the stipulated time, it would be considered contempt of court.

The same bench also issued notices to respondents, including the Nazim of UC Gazdarabad, SHO Nabi Bux and others, for March 20 on a constitutional petition filed by Mohammed Siddique, a shopkeeper of Hoti Market, who has sought registration of FIR against the UC Nazim and others for encroaching on a footpath and a road besides the shop owned by him.

The petitioner maintained that he had a shop in the market which was demolished on the pretext of being illegal encroachment. The articles lying in the shop were also removed by the anti-encroachment party and were not returned to him, he maintained.

He prayed to the court to direct the SHO Nabi Bux police station to register a case against the UC Nazim and other councillors.