Alleged illegal detention: Court ropes in corps commander on farmhand’s petition

Ahmed maintains in his petition that Moula Bux was arrested by Military Intelligence on May 25, 2010.


Our Correspondent January 31, 2012

KARACHI:


A case filed by a peasant from Umerkot has landed at the doorstep of the top most army official for the Karachi division.


The farmhand, Mushtaq Ahmed, went to the Sindh High Court for his cousin, Moula Bux, a Naik in the 23 Baloch regiment. Ahmed maintains in his petition that Moula Bux was arrested by Military Intelligence on May 25, 2010 and has been detained since then with no proceedings being initiated against him. Ahmed feels that he has the right to know under what charges his cousin was being detained and why he was not being prosecuted according to the law.

Ahmed informed the SHC’s Justice Maqbool Baqar and Justice Nisar M Shaikh that in a letter to Moula Bux’s wife Saeeda, the Corps HQ, Karachi, admitted that her husband was arrested by the MI and was later handed over to the Baloch regiment.

Ahmed appealed to the court to order the people he named in the petition to produce Moula Bux before the high court and to ask the military authorities why he was being held in illegal custody.

The judges put the corps commander of Karachi, the commanding officer of headquarters for the Baloch Regiment, Badin, the secretary of defence and the deputy attorney general on notice for February 9.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 1st, 2012.

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