HYDERABAD, May 12: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, on Wednesday issued notices to the DPO and the SHO of the A-section police station of Nawabshah on a petition filed by a woman seeking release of her son.

The court ordered the SHO, Ismail Jamal, to produce the detainee before the court on May 13. The elderly woman, Akbar Khatoon, a resident of the Kubi Ali Hyder Shah village, stated in the petition that she sold her house in Taj Colony to one Anwar Ali for Rs375,000 and her husband, Mohammad Sultan, received Rs100,000 as the token money.

She said that private respondents Pervez, Amjad Memon and Azam started issuing threats to her husband and son after she sold the house as they wanted to buy it at a lower price.

She stated that on March 22, private respondents, along with the SHO, an ASI and other policemen raided her house and took away a motorcycle, Rs61,000 in cash and gold ornaments.

The woman said that police also arrested her husband, son, Mohammad Iqbal, nephew, Jawaid, and a relative, Piaray, and took them to the Nawabshah police station. She alleged that the detainees were pressurised to sell the house to the private respondents, failing which they would be implicated in false cases.

She said that the SHO released her husband, nephew and the relative after 20 days but kept her son in custody without any case against. Ms Khatoon alleged that the SHO threatened to implicate her son in a false case when she approached him (SHO) for his (son) release.

She said that she now did not know where her son was kept by police. She also accused police of harassing her family by keeping on raiding her house. The woman prayed the court to direct police not to harass her family and produce her son before the court.

REMAND: Civil judge Mir Ghulam Hussain Talpur on Wednesday rejected an application of the Baldia police, seeking remand of a former Sindh minister, Qabool Mohammad Shah, in a murder case.