KARACHI: A bench of the Sindh High Court directed on Wednesday a deputy inspector general (DIG) of police to hold an inquiry against the SHO of Manghopir on a missing persons petition.

A woman filed a petition and contended that the police had picked up her brother Lal Zada in Manghopir locality in August last year.

She maintained that SHO Haji Sanaullah had demanded Rs50 million against his release, adding that whereabouts of her brother were still unknown.

Hearing dozens of missing persons petitions, the two-judge bench headed by Justice Aftab Ahmed Gorar directed the DIG (West) to hold the inquiry against the SHO and submit a report on May 31.

The bench also directed the DIG and SSP concerned to make serious efforts for the recovery of an employee of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC).

A relative of KMC employee Mohammad Irshad petitioned the SHC and contended that he was taken away from Garden around four years ago.

Conviction set aside

The same bench on Wednesday set aside a life imprisonment conviction awarded to a man by a trial court in the murder of two policemen.

An antiterrorism court had handed down a 25-year term to Taj Wali in March 2016 after finding him guilty of killing police constables Naeem and Rizwan while robbing a cash van of the Pakistan Post in January 2013 in a Pirabad locality.

The convict challenged the judgement before the SHC and after hearing both sides, the bench overturned the conviction.

Published in Dawn, May 10th, 2018