Imran Farooq murder case: SHC seeks missing accused’s travel record
SHC tells state to file report in 14 days.
KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court has directed the state to file the most recent travel details of a missing employee of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, who is allegedly involved in the Imran Farooq murder case.
The order came on Thursday as a SHC division bench, comprising Chief Justice Musheer Alam and Justice Imam Bux Baloch, was hearing a petition filed by KWSB employee Khalid Shamim’s wife Beena Shamim.
The court was informed that as per Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) records, Khalid Shamim travelled abroad frequently. “As per information gathered on Shamim, he was politically affiliated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM),” said SSP East Ahsan Umar. Relying on a news report from an Urdu daily, Umar submitted that law enforcement agencies took Shamim into custody from Karachi airport with another man in connection with Farooq’s murder.
A senior member of the MQM, Imran Farooq was mysteriously murdered outside his home in London in September last year.
He said that FIA Islamabad has been asked to provide details of Shamim’s international travel from January 1 to date.
In her petition, Beena said that on January 6, she and her husband stopped at an ATM in Malir Halt when her husband was abducted. She said that the kidnappers were travelling in two vehicles, of which one had a green number plate while the other had a white number plate.
She prayed the court to direct law enforcement agencies to divulge the whereabouts of her missing husband and release him from illegal custody as he was not produced before any court of law since his abduction.
She also claimed that Shamim had never travelled even outside Sindh but this was disputed by the respondent state authorities, at which the bench sought a report into the claim within four weeks. The bench was told that Shamim had frequently travelled abroad, including to South Africa and Sri Lanka.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2011.
The Sindh High Court has directed the state to file the most recent travel details of a missing employee of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, who is allegedly involved in the Imran Farooq murder case.
The order came on Thursday as a SHC division bench, comprising Chief Justice Musheer Alam and Justice Imam Bux Baloch, was hearing a petition filed by KWSB employee Khalid Shamim’s wife Beena Shamim.
The court was informed that as per Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) records, Khalid Shamim travelled abroad frequently. “As per information gathered on Shamim, he was politically affiliated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM),” said SSP East Ahsan Umar. Relying on a news report from an Urdu daily, Umar submitted that law enforcement agencies took Shamim into custody from Karachi airport with another man in connection with Farooq’s murder.
A senior member of the MQM, Imran Farooq was mysteriously murdered outside his home in London in September last year.
He said that FIA Islamabad has been asked to provide details of Shamim’s international travel from January 1 to date.
In her petition, Beena said that on January 6, she and her husband stopped at an ATM in Malir Halt when her husband was abducted. She said that the kidnappers were travelling in two vehicles, of which one had a green number plate while the other had a white number plate.
She prayed the court to direct law enforcement agencies to divulge the whereabouts of her missing husband and release him from illegal custody as he was not produced before any court of law since his abduction.
She also claimed that Shamim had never travelled even outside Sindh but this was disputed by the respondent state authorities, at which the bench sought a report into the claim within four weeks. The bench was told that Shamim had frequently travelled abroad, including to South Africa and Sri Lanka.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2011.