The Sindh High Court on Friday issued notice to provincial the home secretary, Sindh police chief, DIG counter-terrorism department and others to file their respective replies to a petition moved by the father of a suspect of the Safoora massacre seeking meeting with his son in penitentiary.
A division bench headed Justice Sadiq Hussain Bhatti was hearing the petition filed by Aziz Akhtar Sheikh, who requested the court to issue directives for the authorities to allow him and other relatives of the suspect to meet him.
The petitioner submitted that the officials of CTD had taken Saad into their custody on May 19 and later on May 20 he was shown as one of the suspect behind Safoora massacre. Subsequently, he added, they again stormed into his house and ransacked household items and took away Saad’s valuable belongings including a laptop, two cell phones and jewelry worth Rs 250,000.
The petitioner said that he had moved an application in anti-terrorism court seeking meeting with his son but it was turned down. Not allowing meeting with his son is violation of Article 10 of the Constitution, he argued while requesting the court to direct the respondent authorities to allow him and other relatives to meet the suspect in prison. The court was further requested to direct the CTD officials to return the belongings of his son.
He pleaded with the court to order an enquiry into his arrest and subsequent implication in the Safoora carnage.
SHC ISSUES NOTICES ON PETITION AGAINST MISSING OF POLITICIAN’S SON
The Sindh High Court on Friday issued notice to the provincial home secretary, IG Sindh, director general of Rangers and other respondents to file comments on a petition seeking whereabouts of missing son of Pasban’s general secretary.
A division bench headed by Justice Sadiq Hussain Bhatti directed the provincial law officer to ensure the filing of comments by the respondents. The petitioner Usman Moazzam, father of the detainee, submitted that his son Saad Moazzam was missing since June 11 and an FIR had also been registered with Sammanabad police station regarding his missing.
The petitioner said the police were not taking serious efforts to trace his missing son and requested the judges to direct the law enforcers to locate his son at earliest.