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| June 3, 2006 | Saturday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 6, 1427 |
Driver’s widow to get free treatment
ISLAMABAD, June 2: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Federal Government Services Hospital (FGSH) to extend free medical treatment to Naseem Shahid, widow of a taxi driver, Shahid Nawaz, and her children.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar and Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad also asked the Director General Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal to provide financial assistance to the widow while Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Sikandar Hayat was directed to provide protection and security to the widow and her children.
SSP is also required to produce relevant medico-legal record of her husband and entry register of the casualty department of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims).
The bench hearing a suo motu notice on the complaint of Naseem Shahid again directed SSP to produce complete investigation report into the tragic murder of the cab driver till June 6 after declaring his inquiry report as unsatisfactory.
Naseem Shahid told the court that she had become a rolling stone in the hands of police and was continuously receiving threats from the Christian community in addition to the financial constraints.
Naseem Shahid, 24, had embraced Islam from Christianity eight years ago. Her tent house was also set on fire in February 2005, for changing her faith. Her five-year-old daughter also died in the fire while two minor sons, her husband and herself were wounded.
In her complaint, Naseem Shahid contended that police constable Abid came to her house on February 13, 2006, when they were dining and took Shahid on his taxi. Shahid had to depose before an Anti-terrorist Court on February 16 in connection with the burning of his tent house in which he lost his daughter.
Next morning, police informed Naseem that Shahid was seriously wounded in a road accident but when she reached Pims, she learnt that her husband was in fact killed in firing in the wee hours of February 14.
Contrary to her statement, Superintendent of Police (SP) Investigations Ashfaq Ahmed and Deputy Superintendent Police (DSP) Industrial Area Circle Jamil Hashmi in the police report claimed that the murder in fact was a sequel of a road robbery, against which a case had also been registered on an application of constable Abid.
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