Petitioners say influential person harasses, intimidates them with police’s help. PHOTO: IHC WEBSITE
IHC judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui directed Islamabad IG Khalid Khattak to appear in person on Thursday (today) on a petition filed by five persons seeking court directives for police officials not to harass, blackmail or intimidate them in connection with the ownership of a piece of land.
Petitioners Bashir, Saleem Khan, Khan Bahadur, Muhammad Hussain and Malik Arshad Mehmood, said that they possess some land in Mouza Sarae Madhu and that utility connections have been installed in their names. According to them, an influential local, Kamaluddin, was attempting to dispossess them from their land with the help of police high-ups.
The petitioners have made the IG, a senior superintendent of police, the Tarnol SHO, and Kamaluddin respondents.
The petitioners said that Kamaluddin has already nominated them in many “frivolous criminal cases”. They told the court that they cannot even access their land as a police mobile van has been stationed there to harass and intimidate them.
On the other hand, Kamaluddin and one of his employees, Babar Ijaz, have lodged three FIRs against the petitioners at the Tarnol Police Station, claiming that Kamaluddin was the sole owner of 256 kanals in Sarae Madhu, while calling the petitioners fraudsters who, according to him, prepared bogus documents and sold the land to different people.
In the other two FIRs, Ijaz, a supervisor for Kamaluddin, said that several men beat him and threatened him with dire consequences when he stopped them from occupying the land.
After taking up the petition, the court summoned the IG and adjourned the case till Thursday. The court also ordered the office to club three other similar cases to take up in today’s hearing.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 21st, 2016.
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