SHC orders recovery of missing persons

Accepts protective bail of accused in 'bounced cheque' case

KARACHI:

The Sindh High Court ordered on Friday the police to recover two brothers, who have been missing for two years, immediately.

A two-member bench, comprising Justice Muhammad Iqbal Kalhoro and Justice Faheem Ahmed Siddiqui, was hearing a plea seeking the recovery of the missing brothers, Muhammad Salman and Muhammad Khalid.

At the outset of the hearing, the petitioner informed the court that her sons had been missing since 2019. She claimed that the court has directed the concerned authorities to recover Salman and Khalid but no action was being taken in this regard.

The petitioner pleaded to the court to order the Central SSP to implement the judicial orders immediately.

During the hearing, the father of another missing person apprised that his son, Arsalanuddin, had been missing since 2018.

At this, the court ordered the relevant police officials to recover the brothers at the earliest and utilize all the available resources for the purpose.

Protective bail granted

Separately, the bench accepted the plea seeking protective bail of an accused in a case pertaining to a bounced cheque.

At the outset of the hearing, the counsel representing the accused, Advocate Liaquat Ali Gabol maintained that his client, Amir Sheikh, was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Sharjah, where he has been residing since February 2017. He claimed that a friend of Sheikh's son-in-law, Shahid Amjad, defrauded him by stealing the cheque and lodged an FIR after making the cheque bounced on April 1.

After hearing the defence lawyer's arguments, the court accepted Sheikh's protective bail against the surety of Rs100,000 and directed him to appear before the trial court within 10 days.

According to Gabol, a local court had declared Sheikh an absconder and directed to block his National Identity Card.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 10^th, 2021.