CJP orders to produce remaining three missing persons by April 10
QUETTA: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was hearing the Blaochistan law and order case in the Supreme Court Quetta Registry here and ordered to recover and produce the...
April 06, 2012
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry is heading the three-member bench including Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Pervaiz.
Four out of seven missing persons were recovered and presented in the Quetta Registry today after the Chief Justice ordered for their recovery. The four recovered persons are Javed, Hazar Khan, Mazar Khan and Malik Sher while three are still missing named Mir Jan, Gul Mir and Amir Jan.
The CJP asked SHO New Saryab about the whereabouts of the four recovered persons on which the latter responded that they were found from a road late at night due to which he could not carry out investigations.
The relatives of the recovered persons said that when they contacted the New Saryab police station to register a report after their relatives were abducted, the SHO ridiculed them instead of registering the case.
On this, the CJP expressed anger and ordered the SHO Saryab to release the recovered men if there were no cases against them and to make them meet their relatives. He also warned the SHO of suspension in case he failed to recover and produce the remaining missing persons by April 10, Tuesday.
Earlier during the proceedings, the CJ in his remarks said, “No one can cast aspersion on the judiciary and the forces and if the provincial minister has falsely blamed the forces, then he will be disqualified.” None can defame the judiciary and the forces, he said.
At the outset of the hearing, Chief Justice expressed his displeasure on the absence of the Attorney General in the court.
Balochistan FC IG, Major General Ubaidullah presenting himself in the court on query from the CJP about the missing persons replied, “We had refuted day before about the incident in newspaper. Chief Justice remarked that rebuttal was not enough, you should have informed the interior ministry in writing.
During Thursday’s proceedings, the CJ directed the Balochistan Inspector General of Police, Rao Amin Hashim, to lodge an FIR in consultation with the provincial minister for home against those ministers who were involved in kidnapping for ransom incidents. ‘If three ministers, who are involved in kidnapping for ransom, are arrested by the evening, then everything would be fine in the province,’ the CJ observed.
About the statement of provincial minister for home, the CJ remarked that previously, the home minister had given a statement about the involvement of some ministers in the kidnapping incidents and added that now the minister had termed it as a general incidence. He directed the IG Police to dig out the matter and find out the names of ministers who were involved in the kidnapping incidents and lodge FIRs against them.
About the seven persons missing from the Saryab Road, Quetta, the CJ said that out of the 10 missing persons on March 1, 2012, three had returned to their homes whereas seven were still missing and directed the IG Police to produce the seven people before the court on Friday (today). The CJ said if the seven people were not produced before the court on Friday morning, then the IG Police, along with all police officials, would be suspended.
The chief justice directed the deputy attorney general to summon the attorney general because the name of Frontier Corps (FC) was being used in connection with the mutilated bodies. Similarly, the bench has asked for an explanation on the issue of mutilated bodies found in different parts of the province from the Inspector General of FC, Balochistan, in this regard.
