The provincial law officer assured the Sindh High Court (SHC) that the police will reinvestigate the abduction case of a man and examine every witness that was cited by the complainant, the wife of the abductee.

The assurance came on a petition filed by Humera, whose husband Ali Mohammad, a religious scholar, had been missing since May 5, 2004. The petitioner’s counsel Chaudhry Mohammad Iqbal asked the court to take action against police officials, who, despite the court’s order, did not investigate the case properly.

He submitted that the court had ordered that an FIR be lodged against police officials including DSP Mashwani, who was allegedly involved in kidnapping Mohammad from his Gulshan-e-Iqbal residence.

The SHC’s division bench, comprising Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Bin Yamin, observed that the case was disposed of without recording the statement of witnesses as cited by the petitioner.

Additional Advocate General Adnan Karim submitted that he will contact the Investigate Officer (IO) concerned of the case to reinvestigate the matter thoroughly and examine the witnesses as cited by the petitioner. He said that compliance shall be made before the court within two weeks.

The court also asked the petitioner to cooperate with the IO regarding investigation. Proceeding quashed: The SHC’s single bench, comprising Justice Mrs Qaiser Iqbal, quashed criminal proceedings against four petitioners including office-bearers of the Meat Merchant Welfare Association.

Iqbal Ahmed Qureshi, Sirajuddin, Saleem Qureshi and Tariq Iqbal were charged with injuring Kamran Qureshi in limits of the Taimoria police station on March 22, 2004. The complainant alleged that the petitioners had attacked him while he was on his way to work.

The petitioners’ counsel, Nehal Hashmi, contended that his clients were falsely implicated due to enmity and requested the court to quash the proceedings. The court after hearing arguments of the case, for reason to be recorded later, quashed criminal proceedings against them.

Judgment reserved in triple murder case: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday reserved judgment on the appeals of three convicts, including a woman, in a triple murder case. Mohammad Farhan, Javed Ahmed and Asma Nawab were sentenced to death by the anti-terrorism court (ATC) in 1999 after having found them guilty of murdering Asma’s parents and her brother in Model Colony, Malir.

According to the prosecution, Farhan and Asma were in a relationship. This had annoyed Asma’s mother, Abrar Begum. Having learnt this, Farhan along with co-accused Javed and Wasim went to Asma’s house on December 23, 1998, committed a robbery, and killed Asma’s father Nawab Ahmed, Abrar Begum and her brother Asif Nawab. The SHC’s division bench, comprising Justice Ali Sain Dino Metlo and Justice Dr Rana M. Shamim, reserved judgment after hearing the closing arguments of the appellants’ counsel.