Category: Illegal detention
Former SHO jailed for five years in illegal detention case
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: The Naushahro Feroze antiterrorism court on Saturday sentenced a police officer to five years in jail for keeping a man in illegal custody and subjecting a judicial magistrate to death threats. According to the prosecution, Inspector Niaz Mirani, kept Arbab Solangi in illegal custody in April 2012 when he was posted as the […]
Former SHO jailed for five years in illegal detention case
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: The Naushahro Feroze antiterrorism court on Saturday sentenced a police officer to five years in jail for keeping a man in illegal custody and subjecting a judicial magistrate to death threats. According to the prosecution, Inspector Niaz Mirani, kept Arbab Solangi in illegal custody in April 2012 when he was posted as the […]
Illegal`detention case
A judicial magistrate raided the Brigade police station on Monday and recovered a man apparently kept there in unlawful detention. On the directives of a sessions court on a habeas corpus application, a judicial magistrate (east) along with the applicant and his lawyer raided the police station and got the detainee, Ashan, released on a […]
IGP to take action against cops submitting old reports to court
Karachi The Sindh High Court directed the IGP on Monday to conduct an inquiry against police officials who, instead of making any progress in missing person cases, were filing old reports. The court was hearing a petition filed by Mohammad Saeed against the illegal detention of his brother-in-law Mohammad Shoaib who was taken away from […]
Outcry over ‘unlawful detention’ of HR activist
KARACHI: Despite a passage of one week to his ‘detention’, rights activist and general secretary of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum Saeed Baloch has been neither produced in any court of law nor officially shown arrested in any criminal case, sparking outrage from international rights groups. On Jan 16, Mr Baloch, who is also the general […]
Harassment: Man accuses police officials of ‘abducting’ him
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Friday sought comments from the Nawankot SHO on a petition seeking registration of a case against 13 police officials for illegally detaining the petitioner. Waseem Zakariya had accused the officials, including the CCPO, the Operations DIG, the Operations SSP and the SHO, for “abducting” him after he refused […]
