The Sindh High Court on Monday issued a notice to the home secretary, provincial police chief, rangers’ director general, among other official respondents, to submit their respective replies to the petitions made against the detention of seven citizens, said to be political activists, by law enforcement agencies.
The bench also issued notices to the federal and provincial law officers to submit their comments on the petitions by January 15, 2015.
Advocate Muhammad Imran Miyo, who represented the petitioners, submitted that Rangers personnel picked up Malik Ibrar, Umair Sharafat, Abdul Naseer, Shehzad Khan, Slaman Syed Tahir and Bilal, from different areas on January 15, 16 and 20. Since then there was no information about their whereabouts, he added.
He said that the relatives of the missing men had reported the matter to the police stations concerned but they refused to entertain their pleas and did not register any FIRs. The counsel said that if they had been involved in any criminal activity then the paramilitary troops should have produced them in the court of law, but this had not been the case.
He pleaded the court to direct the law enforcement officials to produce them in court.
