Still missing: Nehal Hamid Ansari, where did he go?
Spy agency, interior ministry deny arresting Indian national.
The court had ordered SHO KDA police to appear in person with the complete station record on the next hearing and clarify his position. PHOTO: PPI
PESHAWAR:
In reports submitted with the Peshawar High Court (PHC), the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and federal ministry of interior deny arresting Indian national Nehal Hamid Ansari.
However, the reports of Military Intelligence and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Home and Tribal Affairs department are still awaited; the latter has been issued three notices earlier. Additional registrar (judicial) issued notices yet again to the parties named in the petition on Thursday and fixed the case to be heard by a division bench on February 26.
Back home
On April 28, 2013, NDTV reported 27-year-old engineering and management graduate from Mumbai, Hamid Ansari, had gone missing in Pakistan. He had left for Kabul on November 4, 2012, on a 90-day tourist visa. He remained in touch with his family for a week after which he went missing. The family then lodged a complaint with Versova police, Mumbai.
The family had earlier sent an application to the Supreme Court human rights cell which forwarded the case to the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances in March 2014. An FIR was also registered at Karak city police station and the mysterious turn of events is yet to be resolved.
Fake ID
On September 8, 2014, a bench comprising Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel and Justice Ikramullah Khan was informed that the joint investigation team (JIT) report revealed Ansari was last seen at a hotel in Kohat where he had checked in through a fake CNIC.
Shakil Asif, counsel of Ansari, told the bench that according to the report, Ansari had made a reservation at Palwasha Hotel, which is situated near a bus stand in Kohat, using a fake ID of Hamza, a resident of Islamabad, for a night against Rs300. Asif added the hotel owner and manager told the JIT headed by the Karak DPO that Hamza left the building around midnight after which police “picked him up”.
The court had ordered SHO KDA police to appear in person with the complete station record on the next hearing and clarify his position.
During the previous hearing on July 1, 2014, the court was told Ansari went missing from Kohat on November 12, 2012. He is the president of Rotary Club, New Delhi. Ansari had moved to Afghanistan in search of a job while his alleged love interest was in Kohat. The court questioned how an Indian national entered Pakistani territory without valid travel documents and reached Kohat under the nose of intelligence agencies.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 30th, 2015.
In reports submitted with the Peshawar High Court (PHC), the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and federal ministry of interior deny arresting Indian national Nehal Hamid Ansari.
However, the reports of Military Intelligence and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Home and Tribal Affairs department are still awaited; the latter has been issued three notices earlier. Additional registrar (judicial) issued notices yet again to the parties named in the petition on Thursday and fixed the case to be heard by a division bench on February 26.
Back home
On April 28, 2013, NDTV reported 27-year-old engineering and management graduate from Mumbai, Hamid Ansari, had gone missing in Pakistan. He had left for Kabul on November 4, 2012, on a 90-day tourist visa. He remained in touch with his family for a week after which he went missing. The family then lodged a complaint with Versova police, Mumbai.
The family had earlier sent an application to the Supreme Court human rights cell which forwarded the case to the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances in March 2014. An FIR was also registered at Karak city police station and the mysterious turn of events is yet to be resolved.
Fake ID
On September 8, 2014, a bench comprising Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel and Justice Ikramullah Khan was informed that the joint investigation team (JIT) report revealed Ansari was last seen at a hotel in Kohat where he had checked in through a fake CNIC.
Shakil Asif, counsel of Ansari, told the bench that according to the report, Ansari had made a reservation at Palwasha Hotel, which is situated near a bus stand in Kohat, using a fake ID of Hamza, a resident of Islamabad, for a night against Rs300. Asif added the hotel owner and manager told the JIT headed by the Karak DPO that Hamza left the building around midnight after which police “picked him up”.
The court had ordered SHO KDA police to appear in person with the complete station record on the next hearing and clarify his position.
During the previous hearing on July 1, 2014, the court was told Ansari went missing from Kohat on November 12, 2012. He is the president of Rotary Club, New Delhi. Ansari had moved to Afghanistan in search of a job while his alleged love interest was in Kohat. The court questioned how an Indian national entered Pakistani territory without valid travel documents and reached Kohat under the nose of intelligence agencies.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 30th, 2015.