SHC wants Arshad Pappu, Lalu on Nov 15
A division bench, comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Imam Bux Baloch, was hearing a constitutional petition filed by Lalu’s wife and Arshad Pappu’s mother Neelo. She named the Sindh home secretary, IG police, superintendent Nusrat Mangan and deputy superintendent Raja Mumtaz as respondents.
Her counsel Ghulam Hussain Soho submitted that Lalu and Pappu had been incarcerated since 2003 and 2006, respectively. Other relatives were also imprisoned in many cases. He submitted that the petitioner’s husband and son had been in solitary confinement for a long time as well. Neelo and her daughter-in-law Arshad Pappu’s wife went to Central Prison to see the men on Oct 23 but superintendent Mangan and deputy superintendent Mumtaz didn’t allow them to meet. Later, jail officials told the women that the men were in solitary confinement.
Their counsel stated that now officials had said that both prisoners were transferred to Hyderabad prison from Karachi, but no rationale or reason had been given. He contended that there was no reason to shift them to Hyderabad, as their case had been pending for a long time in the court of Additional District & Sessions Judge, South-IV, Karachi. He prayed the court to direct the jail authorities to allow the wives of Haji Lal and Arshad Pappu to see them in prison and transfer them from solitary confinement. He also prayed the court to order the jail authorities to transfer both prisoners back to Karachi, if indeed they had been shifted to Hyderabad. The SHC division bench, after a preliminary hearing, ordered notice to be issued to the respondents as well as the Advocate General Sindh for November 15.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 28th, 2010.
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