PESHAWAR: Sri Lankan national, Muhammad Nazeem, who was reportedly rescued in a police raid on June 27, appeared in court on Friday and contested the police report stating he was abducted.
Nazeem recorded his statement in the court of additional sessions judge Farid Khan Alizai. The foreigner said he came to Karachi in June last year on a business-related trip and then subsequently came to Peshawar where he had been staying as a guest at Samin Khan’s house in Karimabad Kakshal.
“I came here for my rice business and have known Samin Khan for the last eight to nine years through my brother-in-law. Khan took me to various places including Murree, Abbottabad and Islamabad for visits,” reads Nazeem’s statement.
He further said police found him at Noor Muhammad’s house in Hayatabad because Samin Khan had left him there as a guest as he was moving from Peshawar.
“I have been living with Noor Muhammad for the past three weeks of my own free will. I was not abducted or kidnapped by anyone. I was Noor’s guest,” he said in the statement.
According to Nazeem, he did not approach any police station claiming he was kidnapped and did not know on what grounds police registered a kidnapping case against five people.
Judge Alizai then summoned the SHO of Tatara police station on Saturday (today) to explain his position.
Nazeem was reportedly rescued during a raid in Hayatabad on June 27. Police then registered cases against five people for allegedly kidnapping him. However, the counsel for the accused told the court on July 3 that Nazeem had come to Pakistan on a business visa and his clients had not abducted him. The court then granted them bail before arrest.
For a point
In a separate case, a two-member Peshawar High Court bench comprising Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel and Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan dismissed a petition filed against the Federal Public Service Commission regarding points awarded in the Central Superior Service (CSS) exam.
Barkatullah Khan, counsel of petitioner Muhammad Afsar Shah, told the bench his client sat for a CSS exam and passed all papers except one.
The counsel added Shah failed English Precis and Composition paper by just one mark but scored well in the rest of the papers.
“In 2012, the Federal Public Service Commission under the chairmanship of Rana Bagwandas had decided that one additional mark will be given to those candidates who have passed other papers,” said the lawyer.
However, the counsel for the federal commission said decisions are implemented after the approval of the federal government but the decision to give one additional mark was not taken before approval from the government.
The bench then dismissed Shah’s petition.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 12th, 2014.
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