Supreme Court of Pakistan. – File Photo

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ordered the capital police chief on Friday to recover and produce before it a man who had been picked up in broad daylight last week in the presence of his family.

His counsel informed the court that the only crime of 24-year-old Omar Mahmood Wali was that he was supplying food to demonstrators demanding recovery of missing persons in Islamabad’s Parade Ground.

A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and Justice Tariq Parvez, which had taken up a case of seven of the 11 surviving Adiyala jail prisoners, directed Islamabad IG Bani Ameen Khan to take all necessary steps to recover and produce the man before the court on Monday.

During the proceedings when Raja Mohammad Irshad, the counsel for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Military Intelligence (MI), said that heinous and venomous allegations were being levelled against the agencies these days, the chief justice observed that everybody had respect for intelligence agencies because they were rendering great sacrifices for the nation.

“But people certainly have feelings when some members of the agencies were detracted,” the chief justice said.

Advocate Tariq Asad pleaded the case of Mahmood Ahmad Khan, the father of Omar, who said the whereabouts of his son were still not known.

The court recalled that directions had already been given to its registrar to ask the IG to submit a report on the abduction by March 17, while a notice had also been issued to Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq.

Mahmood Khan told Dawn that Omar had been picked up in his presence from his residence in Orchard Farm, Margalla Town.

In his application submitted to the apex court, Mr Mahmood said he, along with his wife and two sons, had left their house at about 5.45pm on March 10. They were heading towards Islamabad when on the service road in the direction of Rawal Chowk their car was intercepted by some people who were in vehicles, including a black Corolla with a government number plate. They forcibly took away Omar.

ADIYALA PRISONERS: Additional Advocate General of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Asadullah Chamkani submitted a report compiled by Chief Secretary Ghulam Dastagir on the health condition of seven surviving detainees.

The report suggested that Dr Niaz, Syed Abdul Majid and Abdul Basit required further medical treatment and needed to stay at Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital for another week.

The court ordered the KP chief secretary to provide medical facilities and arrange fortnight visits by the board set up under the Actions (in Aid of Civil Power) Regulation 2011. If needed, the board members might be accompanied by doctors, it said.