MIANWALI, June 2: District and Sessions Judge Baqir Ali Rana on Friday directed the city police station SHO to produce on June 5 (Monday) the Chinese doctor whom they had picked up the other day from a local private hospital.

Hearing a plea for registration of criminal case against the city police station SHO and others for ‘kidnapping’ Chinese acupuncture specialist Dr Muhammad Omar Wank, the judge also directed the Obaid Noor Hospital administration to produce the documents of the foreign national’s association with the health facility as well as his professional testimonials.

Earlier, the court deputed a bailiff for the recovery of the doctor from the police custody but he failed to do so and quoted SHO Zulfiqar Cheena as claiming that he had sent the doctor to Sargodha under proper security.

The SHO while appearing in court denied the allegations levelled by the applicant and stated that he had asked the doctor to go to Islamabad since he was not being provided security by the hospital (in Mianwali) despite repeated letters from the DPO to the hospital administration in this regard.

On Thursday, an SHO Cheena-led team picked up Dr Wank who, according to the hospital administration, had been visiting the facility every Thursday from Islamabad for the last one year.

The administration and eyewitnesses said the police humiliated the doctor and bundled him into their vehicle before disappearing.