ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned hearing of a suo motu case for the recovery of Hassan Sharjeel, the son of Islamabad-based journalist Shakeel Turabi, allegedly picked up by spy agencies after a massacre in the mosque of cantonment area Rawalpindi on December 4 last year.
The hearing of the case was fixed before a three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and comprising Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur-Rehman Ramday but the police party headed by Inspector General of Police Syed Kalim Imam, Deputy Inspector General Bin Yamin, and Senior Superintendent of Police Tahir Alam were sitting in chilled office of SP Supreme Court building and kept on waiting for their turn to appear before the court.
Shakeel Turabi appeared before the court but the CJP adjourned the hearing till July 14 due to the absence of police officials from the courtroom.
Later, the police officials led by Inspector General Islamabad Police, Kaleem Imam, arrived in the courtroom to appear before the CJP and informed the bench that some considerable progress has been made for the recovery of Hassan Sharjeel but the CJP stopped him from giving the progress report and told him that the case has been adjourned till July 14, therefore they may now appear on the next date of hearing and explain the progress made.
At the last hearing, IG Kaleem Imam had informed the court that a joint investigation team, including officials of spy agencies and capital police, had been formed for the recovery of Hassan Sharjeel.
The court, however, directed the IG to produce the missing youth on Friday, July 9, before the court. The police team, in an apparent bid to avoid the bench’s grilling, used delaying tactics to buy more time.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 10th, 2010.
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