The Sindh High Court (SHC) has issued arrest warrant of Central Investigation Agency’s SSP Farooq Awan for not complying with the court’s earlier direction to ascertain the whereabouts of a student who had gone missing in 2012.
The SHC bench, headed by Justice Irfan Saadat, was hearing the petition filed by Muhammad Islam, the father of missing student who moved the court for recovery his son, Muhammad Faisal.
Faisal, who was a second year student, has been missing since January 2012. On 10th September, the SHC directed the SSP to furnish the report regarding whereabouts of the missing man, but he did not complied with the court’s order. “He neither appeared before the court nor produced any report,” the judges observed.
The court issued bailable arrest warrants in the sum of Rs 25,000 against SSP Awan. The SHC served the warrants through DIG, CIA and directed him to ensure Awan’s appearance in the next hearing on 22nd October. Citing DG Rangers Sindh, IGP Sindh and SHO Mominabad police station, interior and home secretaries as respondents, Muhammad Islam, the father of the missing man, prayed the court to direct the respondents to recover his son and produce him before the court.