Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, while hearing the Adiala jail missing prisoners’ case, on Wednesday questioned that why the prisoners held in detention center were not presented before the magistrate.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry resumed the hearing of the case regarding missing prisoners from Adiala Jail.
During today’s hearing, the CJ questioned that why the prisoners who were kept in dentention center were not presented before the magistrate and for how long this matter will continue.
On this, lawyer of the secret agencies Raja Irshad told that the notification to keep those prisoners in custody has been withdrawn.
The hearing of the case is still underway in the SC.
In the previous hearing, Raja Muhammad Irshad had informed the court that the interment authority had withdrawn its order against the Adiala Jail prisoners and they had een handed over to the Political administration in the tribal area wherein they would be tried under the FCR laws. Tariq Asad, counsel for the petitioners, contended that the detainees were detained illegally either by the interment authority and political administration.
The court had directed counsel for the intelligence agencies to place on record, the report and also directed him to provide copy of the interment order to counsel for the petitioners as well on the next date of hearing.
