Missing judge found: Abduction FIR had been registered

The LHC Chief Justice had ordered the sessions judge and the CCPO to recover the judge.

LAHORE: A civil judge who had been reported abducted returned home on Friday evening. A relative told the police that the judge had been out of the city and was not cell phone accessible as mobile networks were not working where he was. The Lahore High Court Chief Justice had also taken notice of judge’s disappearance and ordered the sessions judge and the CCPO to recover the judge.

Johar Town police had registered an FIR on Friday against unidentified people for the abduction of Civil Judge Muhammad Azeem Akhtar who had been missing since Thursday evening.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 24^th, 2012.