Numaish violence: SHC asks administration to explain 100 arrests

KARACHI:

The home secretary, intelligence agency bosses and top police officials besides the station house officers (SHOs) of more than a dozen police stations in all three of Karachi’s zones have been asked to explain the detention of 100 suspects rounded up after the violence at Numaish on November 27.

Two scouts were killed that day and rioting broke out.

The Sindh High Court bench comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Ahmed Ali M Sheikh earlier heard Maqboolur Rahman advocate, the lawyer for the petitioner Zeeshan Muqeem Khan. Rahman said that in the aftermath of the unfortunate incident, the police had, under pressure from the authorities, arrested people on a mad manhunt and had herded together innocent citizens from the jurisdictions of Darakhshan, Taimuria, Mehmoodabad, Mubina Town, Soldier Bazaar, Korangi, Shah Faisal, Bin Qasim and other areas.

These men were detained at different police stations but to date they have not been produced in any court nor has any information on them been provided, the petition maintained.

The bench ordered for the notices to be issued for December 8.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 4^th, 2011.