Illegal detention?: PHC orders missing person be presented

DPO DI Khan claimed the person was not arrested from DI Khan, but from an area in Balochistan.

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday directed K-P chief secretary and Inspector General Police of Balochistan to produce a missing person in the next hearing; otherwise, it would declare the detention of the person illegal. A two-member bench comprising PHC Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan issued the order after it was informed a close relative of petitioner Shereen Bibi was picked up from DI Khan and later found in a police station in Qilla Saifullah, Balochistan. It was further informed the missing person was indicted in a kidnapping case in an FIR lodged earlier. However, District Police Officer DI Khan Nisar Marwat claimed the person was not arrested from DI Khan, but from an area in Balochistan.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 1^st, 2013.