Police reply awaited on plea against Dost Khosa

Petitioner says thugs threatened to kill family if Sapna case was not withdrawn.

LAHORE:

Additional District and Session Judge Azizullah Khan on Monday gave Nawab Town police two days to reply to a petition seeking a criminal case against former chief minister Dost Muhammad Khosa and others for allegedly making death threats to the family of his ex-wife Sapna Khan.

Petitioner Muhammad Ameen Khan said that he had been accosted by a group of men on November 9 and they had threatened to kill him and his family if his father Missal Khan did not withdraw a petition seeking a case against the former chief minister for allegedly murdering Sapna. The petitioner said that the men had claimed to have been sent by Haider Bukhari and Rana Tanveer Ahmed at Khosa’s behest.

Ameen submitted that suspicious looking men were continuously wandering around his house. He asked the court to order the police to register a case against the suspicious men. Earlier, a Johar Town policeman told the court in response to the petition that the alleged offence occurred in the jurisdiction of Nawab Town police station and that was where the case should be registered. The court then summoned the Nawab Town station house officer, who sought time to prepare a reply.

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