No longer valid: Ajmal Pahari’s wife withdraws case seeking his whereabouts
Pahari was produced in court on Thursday and was remanded to police custody.
File photo of Ajmal Pahari being brought in for a hearing. PHOTO: IRFAN ALI
KARACHI:
The wife of Karachi’s notorious target killer, Shahnawaz alias Ajmal Pahari, withdrew her plea seeking his whereabouts.
Fouzia took back the case after the police announced that he was in their custody.
Pahari was arrested on March 18, 2011, after the police booked him in 15 different cases of murder and kidnappings. Later, the Sindh home department detained him under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO), following his acquittal in 11 cases and bail in the remaining four, said Fouzia.
The jail authorities finally released him on January 18 this year after his detention was challenged in the high court, but he failed to reach home. “I have come to know that Ajmal was given into the custody of SSP Farooq Awan, and his life is in danger,” she had claimed.
She cited the provincial home secretary, inspector general of prisons and Karachi Central Jail’s superintendent as respondents. The judges had ordered the jail superintendent to track down Pahari within seven days, but the police declared his arrest on January 30. On Thursday, a judicial magistrate handed over his custody to the police.
On Friday, lawyer Farooq Ahmed told the judges that the purpose of the plea had been served since the police had disclosed the custody of Fouzia’s husband and produced him in court. He asked the court allow him to withdraw the plea along with the petition challenging his detention under MPO. The bench, headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, dismissed the plea.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 2nd, 2013.
The wife of Karachi’s notorious target killer, Shahnawaz alias Ajmal Pahari, withdrew her plea seeking his whereabouts.
Fouzia took back the case after the police announced that he was in their custody.
Pahari was arrested on March 18, 2011, after the police booked him in 15 different cases of murder and kidnappings. Later, the Sindh home department detained him under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO), following his acquittal in 11 cases and bail in the remaining four, said Fouzia.
The jail authorities finally released him on January 18 this year after his detention was challenged in the high court, but he failed to reach home. “I have come to know that Ajmal was given into the custody of SSP Farooq Awan, and his life is in danger,” she had claimed.
She cited the provincial home secretary, inspector general of prisons and Karachi Central Jail’s superintendent as respondents. The judges had ordered the jail superintendent to track down Pahari within seven days, but the police declared his arrest on January 30. On Thursday, a judicial magistrate handed over his custody to the police.
On Friday, lawyer Farooq Ahmed told the judges that the purpose of the plea had been served since the police had disclosed the custody of Fouzia’s husband and produced him in court. He asked the court allow him to withdraw the plea along with the petition challenging his detention under MPO. The bench, headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, dismissed the plea.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 2nd, 2013.