Arrest warrant issued for defiant PAF employee involved in minor’s abduction. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai, who headed the bench, ordered them to submit these reports by next month. These directions were given during the hearing of a non-government organisation’s petition against the police for allegedly showing reluctance in registering FIRs in missing children cases.
According to the data compiled by the Roshni Research and Development Welfare, somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 children go missing annually. The group claimed that as many as 2,317 children went missing from the jurisdictions of 106 Karachi police stations during 2012. The petitioner alleged that the police usually record missing children complaints in their Roznamcha [daily diary] at the police station instead of lodging an FIR.
“If a missing child is not rescued within 48 hours, then the police should register a kidnapping case and investigate the matter according to the law,” the group’s lawyer, Naveed Ahmed Khan, argued.
On Thursday, Legal AIG Ali Sher Jakhrani filed reports of the heads of the Defence, Taimuria, Docks and Jackson police stations. He informed the court that reports have been asked from the DIGs of Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Larkana and Sukkur. However, they have all failed to file.
The bench ordered the concerned DIGs to submit their reports in this regard by the next date of hearing.
PAF employee’s warrants
The same SHC bench also issued a bailable warrant for the arrest of an employee of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Chaklala Airbase, who is allegedly involved in the kidnapping of a minor girl.
Peitioner Abdul Haleem had gone to court for the recovery of his seven-year-old daughter, Maryam, who was abducted on April 17 2011.
Following the court’s directions, police investigation revealed that the suspected kidnapper Farhan Ali is a PAF employee at the Chaklala Airbase.
On Thursday, the judges issued a bailable arrest warrant for Farhan Ali, who did not appear in court despite repeated issuance of notices and directions.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 17th, 2014.
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