The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday issued notices to Director General Rangers Sindh, Inspector General Sindh, CPLC chief and other officials to file their comments on the petition seeking whereabouts of a man who went missing outside city courts Karachi.
SHC bench headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah took up the petition filed by the mother of the detainee who moved the court against law enforcers for detaining her son Muhammad Arshad Iqbal.
The petitioner stated that her son went to the city courts on September 9, 2015 to obtain the release order for his car. “But some Rangers personnel wearing civil clothes detained my son and took him away just after he came out from gate No 3 of City Courts Karachi,” she submitted.
The petitioner stated that there was one FIR registered against her son at Orangi Town police station under section 23IA of Sindh Arms Act, 2013 but in that particular case Iqbal was already on bail and he could not be arrested.
The mother of the detainee stated that she was going through mental agony because her son had gone missing.
She expressed her apprehension that her son might be killed in a fake encounter.
Citing DG Rangers Sindh, IGP Sindh, CPLC chief and SHO City Court Police Station as respondents, she prayed the court to direct the respondents to produce her son before the court. She also requested the court to lodge FIR against those who were involved in illegal detention of citizens.
After the initial hearing, the court issued notices to the attorney general and other respondents to file their comments on September 17.