Cognizable offences: NGO files petition on missing children

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court issued notices to the inspector general of police, advocate general of Sindh and other officials in a petition on missing children filed by Roshni Helpline, said the NGO in a press release on Wednesday. Roshni has appealed for the cases of missing children to be taken as a cognisable offence so that the way the police deal with these cases changes. Justices Shahid Anwar Bajwa and Nisar Muhammad Sheikh heard Roshni’s lawyer Naveed Ahmed. The bench issued notices for March 20.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 8^th, 2012.