Repeating orders: SHC tells K-P govt to verify engineer’s involvement in crime
Afzal Waheed has demanded the federal govt bring his brother, Osama, to court.
KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) repeated on Monday its directives to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) home authorities to verify the involvement of a computer engineer currently in detention.
Osama Waheed is currently detained in the Lucky Marwat internment centre.
Afzal Waheed, his brother, had gone to court to seek Osama's recovery. He said that the two of them were picked up by the law enforcers from Karachi airport on July 1, 2011, after their acquittal in a terrorism-related case. Ajmal was later released but Osama is still missing, he said, pleading the court order the federal interior secretary to produce him in the court of law.
During the course of proceedings, the federal law officer disclosed that Osama is detained in an internment centre in K-P.
At a previous hearing, the court had directed the deputy attorney general to seek information from the K-P home secretary about Osama, including his involvement in any case and to also ensure his production in the court.
But on Monday, neither was any K-P home department official present nor did anyone file any verification report.
The deputy attorney general, Azizullah Buriro, said that an authorised officer from the K-P home department is coming to Karachi for another case on October 18. He requested for time till October 18 to file the comments.
Allowing the request, the two-member bench, headed by Justice Ahmed Ali M Sheikh, ordered the K-P home department representative to appear in person on October 21 and answer the court's queries.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2014.
The Sindh High Court (SHC) repeated on Monday its directives to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) home authorities to verify the involvement of a computer engineer currently in detention.
Osama Waheed is currently detained in the Lucky Marwat internment centre.
Afzal Waheed, his brother, had gone to court to seek Osama's recovery. He said that the two of them were picked up by the law enforcers from Karachi airport on July 1, 2011, after their acquittal in a terrorism-related case. Ajmal was later released but Osama is still missing, he said, pleading the court order the federal interior secretary to produce him in the court of law.
During the course of proceedings, the federal law officer disclosed that Osama is detained in an internment centre in K-P.
At a previous hearing, the court had directed the deputy attorney general to seek information from the K-P home secretary about Osama, including his involvement in any case and to also ensure his production in the court.
But on Monday, neither was any K-P home department official present nor did anyone file any verification report.
The deputy attorney general, Azizullah Buriro, said that an authorised officer from the K-P home department is coming to Karachi for another case on October 18. He requested for time till October 18 to file the comments.
Allowing the request, the two-member bench, headed by Justice Ahmed Ali M Sheikh, ordered the K-P home department representative to appear in person on October 21 and answer the court's queries.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2014.