Four out of seven persons were brought in the Supreme Court’s Quetta Court Registry on Friday on the orders of the Supreme Court. — File Photo

QUETTA: Four out of seven persons were brought to the Quetta Registry of the Supreme Court on Friday following orders by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, DawnNews reported.

The three-member bench headed by Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was hearing the case pertaining to the deteriorating law and order situation in Balochistan.

The CJ ordered to suspend the SHO of the Quetta's area of New Sariab.

The Supreme Court ordered to produce the remaining missing persons till April 10.

On April 5, the chief justice had ordered Balochistan police to produce before the court on Friday seven people picked up from Quetta’s Sariab Road area on March 1. If it was not done, he warned, the police chief and other officers concerned would be suspended.

The chief justice had issued the orders while hearing a petition on the law and order situation and human rights violations in the province. The petition was filed by Advocate Hadi Shakeel, former president of the Balochistan High Court Bar Association.

On Thursday, Justice Iftikhar had expressed anger over absence of Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq and asked why he went to Islamabad for attending the memo commission’s proceedings. “Is the Supreme Court hearing on the missing persons important or the memo scandal case?” he asked. He said the attorney general must attend the court hearing on Friday to respond to allegations levelled against the Frontier Corps by some members of the Balochistan assembly.

Nasrullah Baloch, chairman of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, had informed the court that 10 Baloch people had been picked up from the Sariab Road area on March 1, but three of them were later set free. The whereabouts of the remaining seven were not known, he had added.

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