SHO told to investigate Sapna murder case
Police told to address murder accusation against former chief minister Dost Khosa.
LAHORE:
An additional district and sessions judge on Wednesday directed the Race Course station house officer (SHO) to investigate allegations that former chief minister Dost Muhammad Khosa killed his wife and register a case if an offence is established.
Judge Chaudhry Nazeer Ahmad issued these directions during the hearing of an application filed by Misal Khan, father of Zaiba Khan alias Sapna Khan, seeking a court order for the registration of a criminal case against Khosa and seven others Sajjad Ahmed, Shahir Dawood Butt, Muhammad Fahim Amjad, Rana Tanveer, Javed, Yasin and Shahid – for the alleged kidnapping and murder of his daughter.
The petitioner submitted that he had last seen his daughter on June 22, 2010, when she told him that Khosa had called her to 12-B Aikmen Road, GOR-1 (his official residence). Since that day, she had not been seen nor answered her two mobile phone numbers. The petitioner said that he had repeatedly tried to contact Khosa since them, but he was avoiding him.
He did, however, send a message to his son threatening to kill the whole family if they did not stop the search for Sapna, said the petitioner.
Khan submitted that the police were not taking action against Khosa as he was a powerful politician.
Earlier, replying to the petition, the Race Course police SHO had denied that any such incident occurred within the jurisdiction of his police station. Sapna’s brother Faisal Khan filed an affidavit submitting that he had dropped his sister at 12-B, Aikmen Road on June 22, 2011, the last day she was seen.
Khosa’s counsel Zubair Khalid opposed contentions raised by the petitioner’s counsel, submitting that the court had already rejected an application for the recovery of Sapna Khan. The petitioner’s counsel submitted that this was a new plea to register a murder case against the accused. The judge then directed the SHO to proceed in accordance with the law and register a case, if any cognisable offence was committed.
An advocate had earlier filed a habeas corpus petition for Sapna Khan, claiming in his petition that she had last been seen being torn away from her baby daughter, beaten up and bundled into a car by Khosa’s friends.
In response to that petition, Khosa had submitted an affidavit stating that he had divorced Sapna Khan on June 19, 2011, about a year after they were married and three days before she disappeared. He said they had reached a divorce settlement in which she had agreed to give him custody of their daughter. He said he did not know where she was.
Misal Khan said in his petition that following Sapna’s disappearance, he had been fed various stories about his daughter’s whereabouts. He said he had been told by “messengers of Mr Khosa” that Sapna had shifted to Dubai.
When Khosa visited Sargodha for a prize distribution ceremony in August this year, Khan said, the former chief minister told his younger daughter Ambreen Rizwan that her sister would return home “in due course”. He said some people had anonymously told his family that Khosa had arranged to have Sapna killed.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2011.
An additional district and sessions judge on Wednesday directed the Race Course station house officer (SHO) to investigate allegations that former chief minister Dost Muhammad Khosa killed his wife and register a case if an offence is established.
Judge Chaudhry Nazeer Ahmad issued these directions during the hearing of an application filed by Misal Khan, father of Zaiba Khan alias Sapna Khan, seeking a court order for the registration of a criminal case against Khosa and seven others Sajjad Ahmed, Shahir Dawood Butt, Muhammad Fahim Amjad, Rana Tanveer, Javed, Yasin and Shahid – for the alleged kidnapping and murder of his daughter.
The petitioner submitted that he had last seen his daughter on June 22, 2010, when she told him that Khosa had called her to 12-B Aikmen Road, GOR-1 (his official residence). Since that day, she had not been seen nor answered her two mobile phone numbers. The petitioner said that he had repeatedly tried to contact Khosa since them, but he was avoiding him.
He did, however, send a message to his son threatening to kill the whole family if they did not stop the search for Sapna, said the petitioner.
Khan submitted that the police were not taking action against Khosa as he was a powerful politician.
Earlier, replying to the petition, the Race Course police SHO had denied that any such incident occurred within the jurisdiction of his police station. Sapna’s brother Faisal Khan filed an affidavit submitting that he had dropped his sister at 12-B, Aikmen Road on June 22, 2011, the last day she was seen.
Khosa’s counsel Zubair Khalid opposed contentions raised by the petitioner’s counsel, submitting that the court had already rejected an application for the recovery of Sapna Khan. The petitioner’s counsel submitted that this was a new plea to register a murder case against the accused. The judge then directed the SHO to proceed in accordance with the law and register a case, if any cognisable offence was committed.
An advocate had earlier filed a habeas corpus petition for Sapna Khan, claiming in his petition that she had last been seen being torn away from her baby daughter, beaten up and bundled into a car by Khosa’s friends.
In response to that petition, Khosa had submitted an affidavit stating that he had divorced Sapna Khan on June 19, 2011, about a year after they were married and three days before she disappeared. He said they had reached a divorce settlement in which she had agreed to give him custody of their daughter. He said he did not know where she was.
Misal Khan said in his petition that following Sapna’s disappearance, he had been fed various stories about his daughter’s whereabouts. He said he had been told by “messengers of Mr Khosa” that Sapna had shifted to Dubai.
When Khosa visited Sargodha for a prize distribution ceremony in August this year, Khan said, the former chief minister told his younger daughter Ambreen Rizwan that her sister would return home “in due course”. He said some people had anonymously told his family that Khosa had arranged to have Sapna killed.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2011.