PESHAWAR, Sept 29: Whereabouts of some missing persons may be known after the scores of people being held by the intelligence and law enforcement agencies are shifted to notified internment centres soon, civil and military representatives informed the Peshawar High Court on Thursday. The deputy attorney general, Mohammad Iqbal Mohmand, and a representative of ministry of defence, Capt Irfan, told a two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel that federal and provincial governments had already notified some detention facilities as internment centres under the Action (in Aid of Civil Power) Regulation 2011 for Fata and Pata.

Appearing in cases of some missing persons, they requested the bench to give 15 days time to them during which the detainees would be shifted to internment centres and their custody would be given to provincial government in cases related to the province.

The court directed the DAG to provide lists of the detainees after they were shifted to the internment centres.

The bench adjourned hearing of a habeas corpus petition, challenging alleged illegal detention of a person for the last three months as police officers concerned expressed ignorance about his detention.

The petition is filed by Ikramullah Khattak, cousin of the detainee Jamal Abdul Tahir.

The wife and minor son of the detainee also turned up before the court. The petitioner stated that the detainee, a resident of Defence Colony in Peshawar, was picked up on June 29 by persons wearing uniforms of Elite Force and since then he had been incommunicado.

The petitioner said that the detainee belonged to an educated family and was never involved in any anti-social activity. He added that one of his brothers was a doctor and another was an engineer.

The bench directed the DAG to inquire from the ministries of defence and interior whether the detainee was in custody of any intelligence agency functioning under their supervision.

Similarly, the bench adjourned hearing of another habeas corpus petition, filed by a woman against alleged illegal detention of her husband and brother.

Mr Mohmand and Capt Irfan informed the court that the two detainees, Abdul Lateef and Abdul Malik, had not been in custody of any intelligence agency. They sought time for submitting written reply stating that by then the detainees in custody of security forces would be shifted to the internment centres and the situation would be clear.

The petitioner, hailing from Tank district, alleged that on July 17, 2009, security forces riding over two dozens vehicles had raided their village and taken away her husband and brother.

In another petition filed by a resident of Hangu district, Khan Baz, challenging the detention of his son, Meena Baz, the ministries of interior and defence sought time for ascertaining the whereabouts of the detainee. The petitioner alleged that his son was arrested on 13, 2010, and since then he had been missing.

Similarly, the bench adjourned hearing of a petition filed by Said Nabi, against disappearance of his son Fayaz, a resident of Landi Kotal, Khyber Agency.

The detainee was allegedly taken into custody by the personnel of Khyber Rifles on Sep 20, 2010.