KARACHI, Aug 4: The district and sessions judge, central, on Monday directed the police high-ups and home department to ensure recovery of two girls allegedly kidnapped by their uncle and submit a report till Aug 11.
The SHO of Gulberg police station, meanwhile, submitted a report in court stating that the orders regarding the girls’ recovery had been conveyed to the police high-ups and home department.
He stated that a five-member police team had been constituted. The team would leave for Mansehra in a couple of days, he added.
Earlier, Judge Soofia Latif summoned the station house officer for failing to act on the court orders about the girls’ recovery and directed him to implement the same and submit a report in this regard on Aug 4.
On July 22, the judge disposed of an application for the recovery of both girls, filed by the mother of 11-year-old Zainab and eight-year-old Sara, while directing the home department through the SHO to constitute a police team and dispatch it to Mansehra to recover the detained girls and asked the DPO Mansehra to cooperate and coordinate with the police team. The court also directed the police to recover the detained girls and arrest the kidnappers, and to submit a report in the court within 10 days.
However, the court’s order could not be implemented since the SHO had misinterpreted it.
The applicant, Yasmeen had stated in the application that her daughters were kidnapped by their uncle, Shah Tareen, following a jirga decision.
The application said that Shah Tareen got married to Jannat against her parents’ will in their native town in district Mansehra. To settle the dispute between the two families, a jirga asked Mr Tareen to hand over his nieces to the aggrieved party in compensation.
Subsequently, he allegedly kidnapped the two girls and handed them over to a jirga member, Sanober, in Karachi. The police had arrested Shah Tareen and Sanober. But the detained girls could not be recovered from their possession. They told the court that they did not kidnap the girls and they were in their native town.
Three depose in Afaq case
The additional district and sessions judge-VI, east, on Monday recorded the statements of three witnesses in a kidnap and murder case registered against Muhajir Qaumi Movement chief Afaq Ahmed.
Judge Abdul Razaq, who is conducting the trial inside the central prison, adjourned the hearing till Aug 13.
Afaq Ahmed, Amir Khan and their associates were charged with kidnapping of Muttahida Qaumi Movement workers Mohammed Farooq, Mohammad Thair, Salman and M. Anwar in Landhi police limits on June 19, 1992. Later, they allegedly killed Mohammad Farooq.
The police registered a case (FIR No 102/1992) under Sections 147, 148, 149, 324, 364, 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of Ismail Quershi.
Witnesses summoned in boy’s murder case
The court of additional district and sessions judge, east, adjourned the hearing of a boy’s murder case till Aug 19 since the judge was on leave.
Two prosecution witnesses, Mohammad Naveed and Rizwan, have been directed to depose on the next hearing.
Hafiz Manzoor Ahmed, the Moazzin of a mosque in Shah Faisal Colony, was charged with the murder of a 12-year-old student inside the mosque. However, he pleaded not guilty and opted to contest the case.
The prosecution said that the body of Mohammad Anas was found hanging in Masjid-i-Aqsa in Shah Faisal Colony on Oct 30, 2007.
Police suspected that it was not a suicide case rather the boy was murdered.
The Shah Fasial Colony police had registered a case (FIR No 294/2007) under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code against Hafiz Manzoor Ahmed. The accused was arrested on Nov 1, 2007 and was remanded in judicial custody. According to the charge-sheet, the accused killed the boy on facing resistance while trying to commit a sexual assault.
Hearing put off in Akram Lahori case
The additional district and sessions judge-VI, east, Abdul Razzaq, adjourned the hearing of two cases registered against Akram Lahori, chief of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, due to the absence of witnesses on Monday.
The judge directed the witnesses to appear before the court on the next hearing fixed for Aug 23.
The court indicted Akram Lahori in murder and attempt-to-murder cases. However, he pleaded not guilty and opted to contest the case. The judge summoned the prosecution witnesses directing them to testify. But, they did not turn up.
Akram Lahori is facing murder and attempt-to-murder charges in two cases lodged in 2002. The first case was registered under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Bridge police station and the second case was registered under Section 324 of the PPC at the Korangi Industrial Area police station.
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