Abduction cases: CJ orders police to track down missing girls

CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry takes suo motu action over separate kidnappings.

ISLAMABAD:

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday took suo motu notice of the kidnapping of a female student of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU).

The action was taken in response to an application filed by the father of the kidnapped girl, Dr Gul Mezar Khan, who is a resident of Kohat district. In his complaint, Dr Mezar claimed that Abdul Hussain Junejo had abducted his daughter and taken her to Khairpur, Sindh.

Though a First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged, he said, the police have not arrested the suspect named by him. The police, according to Dr Mezar, have shown reluctance to recover the girl.

The chief justice has directed the inspector general of police in Islamabad for the girl’s recovery.

Without mentioning any details of the incident, the written order of the court stated, “The IGP Islamabad is directed to constitute a team of senior police officers to recover the abductee and present her before the concerned district and sessions judge, in order to record her statement and submit the report by the judge and IGP Islamabad within two weeks.”

Khairpur girl’s abduction

The chief justice also took suo motu action on an application by Khairpur resident Sohbat Ali about the abduction of his daughter. The father of the girl claimed that he had registered an FIR against the accused party but the police failed to make any arrests. However, on self-help basis, the applicant had managed to capture three individuals who were nominated as the kidnappers and were presented before the police.

Sohbat Ali said that the accused disclosed that his daughter had been taken to Sialkot, but police  remained inactive.

After going through the contents of the application, Justice Chaudhry passed similar directions to IG of police in Sindh stating, “The IGP Sindh be directed to recover the abductee and present her before district and sessions judge and submit their report within 15 days.”

In a separate case, the chief justice directed IGP Sindh for the recovery of Ali Akbar’s daughter, who is a resident of Karachi. The applicant stated that the accused persons had abducted his daughter after looting their gold and cash.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 24^th, 2013.