Another person missing: SHC summons IGP and home secretary on mother’s plea

Mother says boy was whisked away by rangers.

KARACHI:

The Sindh High Court has summoned the home secretary and police chief among other officials to explain the disappearance of a man whose mother says he was taken by the Rangers last month.

On Friday, Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi were hearing a petition filed by Zarina Bano for her son Ikramuddin, who was arrested by the Rangers from Baldia Town on October 27.

According to her, soon after her son was whisked away she reported the matter to the Saeedabad police station but officers there not only refused to entertain her application but also misbehaved with the family members.

The missing boy was neither produced before any court of law nor was his family told why he was being detained.

After hearing Bano’s lawyer, the bench ordered for pre-admission notices to be issued to the home secretary, IGP Sindh and others for November 30.

The same bench also disposed of a petition filed against an alleged activist of Jund Allah, a banned outfit, after the police stated that a missing man was wanted in a case and was an activist of the banned organisation.

The petition was filed by Fahad Khan, the brother of alleged detenue Muhammad Farhan Khan Yousufzai. He maintained that his brother, a real estate agent, was arrested by men in civvies in a private car and was escorted by a police mobile on November 14 from his business. The arrest was witnessed by other shopkeepers and people from the area.

On Friday, a CIA/SIU SSP, who was named in the petition, submitted that Sub-Inspector Ghulam Rasool Bhatti, working on a terrorist organisation got information that Salar alias Danish affiliated with Jund Allah would come to Chamra Chowarngi, Korangi, where other suspected activists Farhan Yousuf alias  Hussain, Munawwar alias Azeem and others would be meeting.

The accused reached the spot and on being challenged by the police party fled under cover of fire. The bench disposed of the petition after it was informed that that missing man was wanted by the police in different cases.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 20^th, 2011.