Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday said Balochistan Police had failed to maintain law and order in the province.
A three-member bench of the CJ, Justice Jawad S Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain resumed hearing of petitions on law and order and human rights violations in the province at the Supreme Court’s Quetta Registry. The bench gave two days to the Balochistan police IG to produce Mahmoodul Hassan, a missing person, in court. The CJ ordered the IG police to ensure recovery of the abducted person, who was kidnapped from Dilbadin area, after hearing the statement of Mahmoodul Hassan’s wife.
She informed the court that the kidnappers were moving freely and no one, including police, dared to visit Faisal Town in Dilbadin area. During the proceeding, the CJ observed that crime ratio was comparatively high in police-controlled areas than Levies-controlled area. He said police-controlled areas had become hub of all criminal activates. Confessing their defeats, Interior Secretary Naseebullah Jan said the police had solved some cases successfully. To this, the CJ directed the IG police to maintain the government’s writ in the area, as people did not fear law enforcement agencies, including police, Levies and others.
The chief justice said criminal activities were going on under the nose of the police. The DIG Investigation replied that police were working hard to recover Jamia Salifia director, who was kidnapped two days ago.
The court said police had used BLA’s name to protect its own skin.
Meanwhile, parents of a kidnapped person, Muhammad Hussain, appeared in court and accused Provincial Interior Minister Mir Zafarullah Zoheri of kidnapping their son. Zoheri’s lawyer informed the court that his client was innocent and all allegations leveled against him were baseless.
The DIG Investigation supported Zoheri’s lawyer and called the case a conspiracy to get money from the minister. The chief justice said if the minister was not involved in the case, why had he registered a challan. The DIG said the challan was registered by the crime branch of the police, not by the minister. The chief justice also questioned why had the FIR not been cancelled if the case was fake,. “No one can be exempted, either big or small and every one is bound to obey the law of the state.” the CJ said.
