IHC fines officials Rs2m for failure to recover missing persons
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The secretary of the interior ministry and high-ups of the Islamabad Police were slapped with an Rs2 million fine on Thursday over their failure to recover a citizen who had been allegedly abducted from the federal capital.
A single-member bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC), comprising Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, heard a case about the disappearance of a citizen from the federal capital.
Rebuking law enforcers of the capital on Thursday, the court asked if police officers use hundreds of safe city cameras just to watch beautiful women only.
IHC Justice Kayani imposed fines on the interior ministry’s secretary, Islamabad Inspector General Police (IGP), Investigation SP and Lohi Bher police station SHO.
The court also directed to launch departmental action against these officials.
An Islamabad local, Suleman Farooqui, had been allegedly kidnapped. His father had moved the court over the poor investigations in the case by the police.
Rebuking the police, the court told the police that they can obtain closed-circuit camera television (CCTV) footage of women through safe city cameras and forward them to their friends on Whatsapp. Court ordered the police to produce the victim at the next hearing and adjourned the case.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 17th, 2020.