Parveen Akhtar, the wife of the detainee, took the law enforcement agencies to court, accusing them of detaining him illegally. PHOTO: EXPRESS
A division bench headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto also issued notices to the deputy attorney general (DAG) and the advocate general (AG) to file comments by February 27.
Last month, law enforcers had claimed to have tracked down one of the suspects of the carnage in 2007, when more than 50 political workers were killed in armed clashes during the visit of then-deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry.
On Wednesday, Parveen Akhtar, the wife of the detainee, took the law enforcement agencies to court, accusing them of detaining him illegally. The petitioner claimed that Rangers personnel raided her house in Mehmoodabad Block 3 on February 7, taking away Rafique, 41, to an unknown location.
The detainee’s family members later approached Rangers authorities to seek information of his whereabouts but the officials refused to share any information. Akhtar said that the Rangers presented Rafique in court the following day, obtaining custody of him for 90 days.
She said that her husband was kept under preventive detention in Karachi Central Jail, where she went to meet him on February 13 but was turned away by the jail authorities. “This is a violation of the petitioner’s fundamental rights,” argued her lawyer, Mumtaz Khan.
Khan pleaded the court declare Rafique’s detention illegal since he had no criminal history.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 19th, 2015.
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