Petitioner does not trust investigators

Petitioner appeals to transfer of the investigations of his son’s murder case from Sharae Noor Jehan police station.

KARACHI: The Sindh home secretary, the CCPO Karachi and Sharae Noor Jehan police station SHO were put on notice for December 15 by a division bench of the Sindh High Court on Friday, during the hearing of a constitutional petition filed by Muhammad Ghulam Riaz, who claims that his daughter-in-law allegedly murdered his son.

He filed the petition, appealing to the court to give directives to the CCPO and other respondents to order the transfer of the investigations of his son’s murder case. The probe should be transferred from the Sharae Noor Jehan police station as he has no confidence in the investigators, he maintains.

Ghulam Riaz’s son, Adnan, was killed on September 29, 2009 and a case was registered on a complaint filed by his brother Farhan Riaz against Adnan’s wife Rubab. Meanwhile, Rubab’s mother filed a petition for habeas corpus before the district and sessions judge (Central), after which the court handed over the custody of the accused to her mother. The petitioner alleged that the police investigator helped Rubab’s custody to be transferred to her mother as the investigator was “in league with the family of the alleged murderer”. Therefore, he claims to have lost confidence in the investigators.

He appealed to the court to direct the respondents to order the transfer of investigations to any other police station.

Notices issued to petitioner, respondent for absence

A constitutional petition was filed by Syed Ataullah Shah, chairman of the Rah-e-Raast Trust, a social welfare body seeking orders for action against former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.

The hearing was adjourned indefinitely with notices issued to both sides as none of them were present in court when the petition came up for hearing on Friday. The petitioner seeks directives from the court to the respondents - including federal and provincial government functionaries - to register a case against the former military ruler under Article 6 of the Constitution. The article calls for a death sentence for the person (and his abettors) who abrogates the constitution.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 4^th, 2010.