The Supreme Court on Friday directed Islamabad police to register FIRs if they were approached by heirs of persons who were claimed to have been missing after the Lal Mosque operation.
However, the court directed that unnecessary involvement and scandalizing of institutions should be avoided.
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain resumed hearing in the contempt plea against court’s orders of 2007. The bench issued directives after parents of persons who went missing during the Lal Mosque episode complained that they did not know the whereabouts of their children even after a lapse of five years.
The bench also sought report over progress of missing persons cases being heard by the Commission on Enforced Disappearances and said a report would be submitted before the SC Registrar’s Office about the missing persons with the results whether they had been recovered or not.
The court also ordered Shahid Nadeem Baloch, then in-charge of the Islamabad police who had given an undertaking before the Supreme Court, to appear and submit his reply whether the directions of the court were implemented or not.
He was directed to procure the relevant documents from the Islamabad police, enabling him to clear his position on non-compliance of the court’s direction.
The IGP Islamabad was also asked to submit his reply indicating what steps should have been taken after the order of the court in 2007.
The bench noted that as far as court’s orders were concerned, it should be implemented by all.
Addressing Additional Inspector General of Police Tahir Alam, the court said it was the police’s duty to fix the responsibility.
