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QUETTA: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has ordered police to produce on Wednesday 12 people who went missing from Quetta and Totak area of Khuzdar district. He also asked the chief secretary of Balochistan to submit on that day a complete list of disappeared persons.
A three-judge bench comprising the chief justice, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Pervez resumed the hearing on Monday of a petition on the law and order situation and human rights violations in Balochistan at the Quetta registry of the Supreme Court.
It warned that action would be taken against police, the Totak tehsildar and the deputy commissioner of Khuzdar if they failed to produce the 12 missing persons on May 2.
Families of the missing persons have filed 62 applications in the Supreme Court for their recovery. All of them went missing while they were in Balochistan.
The chief justice asked the chief secretary to approach heads of security institutions and law enforcement agencies, including police, FC, ISI and MI, for the recovery of missing persons. He observed that it was a serious issue and recovery of the bodies was fanning hatred.
Three missing men — Dr Naseer Ahmed, Akhtar Lango and Hafiz Rodani who disappeared from Killi Ismail area on April 3 and were recovered on the court’s orders — were produced before the court.
The chief justice said if missing persons were involved in any crime police should present evidence and register cases against them.
The court observed that rulers who had taken oath under the Constitution were not honouring their oath, leading to a law and order situation and target killings.
Justice Tariq Pervez advised the advocate general of Balochistan to awaken the government to the province’s agony.
The chief justice regretted that despite the increasing number of police stations and force, there was no improvement in law and order.
A woman informed the court that security officials had picked up three people from a house in Shalkot area in April last year. They had been missing since then despite the registration of an FIR, she said.
The chief justice ordered that these people be recovered and produced before the court on May 2.
He directed the federal interior secretary to approach the National Crisis Management Cell to enquire about the whereabouts of Hafiz Saeed-ur-Rehman, who has been missing for several years and no institution is ready to accept responsibility for his disappearance.
The additional IG of Sindh submitted a report on the killing of wife and daughter of MPA Bakhtair Khan Domki in Karachi.
