ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday summoned Inspector Generals Police (IGPs) of Islamabad and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in the murder case of former Attorney-General Sardar Muhammad Khan, on the next date of hearing.
A three-member bench of the apex court comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Shakirullah Jan and Justice Raja Fayyaz was hearing a suo motu case concerning the murder of the country’s former chief legal officer.
During the hearing, DIG Islamabad Bani Amin and SSP Tahir Alam Khan appeared before the bench. They informed the court that four accused have been arrested. However, the main accused Ruhullah could not be held so far.
Tahir Alam said they needed the support of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police for arresting Sardar Khan’s murderers.
Additional secretary of interior ministry Asif Nawaz informed the court that red warrant for Ruhullah had been issued and his name placed on the Exit Control List (ECL).
However, the court rejected the police report, observing that it has taken months for the arrest of ex-AG’s killers. It noted that the interior ministry has an important role to play in the case. “The accused are abroad, therefore, it is the responsibility of the interior ministry to bring them back,” it noted.
The court adjourned the case hearing for two weeks.
Sardar Khan was also a former judge of the Peshawar High Court and had served as the Advocate-General NWFP and member of the Law and Justice Commission.
Sardar Khan was killed in Islamabad in February this year in Sector G-11/2 when he came from Peshawar to appear in a case before the Supreme Court. He was walking on the road when a group of people tried to abduct him. As he put up resistance, he was shot dead.
He was a senior lawyer of the Supreme Court and had also pursued the NRO case.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 21st, 2010.
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