Quetta: Four out of seven missing persons produced in SC

QUETTA: Four out of remaining seven missing persons were recovered and presented in the Supreme Court’s Quetta Registry today (Friday) after the Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ordered for their recovery,

The four recovered persons are Javed, Hazar Khan, Mazar Khan and Malik Sher while three are still missing named Mir Jan, Gul Mir and Amir Jan.

The three-member bench, headed by the chief justice, resumed hearing of the case on the deteriorating law and order situation in Balochistan at the Quetta Registry today.

During Thursday’s proceedings, the CJ directed the Balochistan Inspector General of Police, Rao Amin Hashim, to lodge an FIR in consultation with the provincial minister for home against those ministers who were involved in kidnapping for ransom incidents. ‘If three ministers, who are involved in kidnapping for ransom, are arrested by the evening, then everything would be fine in the province,’ the CJ observed.

About the statement of provincial minister for home, the CJ remarked that previously, the home minister had given a statement about the involvement of some ministers in the kidnapping incidents and added that now the minister had termed it as a general incidence. He directed the IG Police to dig out the matter and find out the names of ministers who were involved in the kidnapping incidents and lodge FIRs against them.

About the seven persons missing from the Saryab Road, Quetta, the CJ said that out of the 10 missing persons on March 1, 2012, three had returned to their homes whereas seven were still missing and directed the IG Police to produce the seven people before the court on Friday (today). The CJ said if the seven people were not produced before the court on Friday morning, then the IG Police, along with all police officials, would be suspended.

About the police failure in curbing the crimes, the CJ said that if the Balochistan IG Police, Rao Amin Hashim, really wanted to maintain the law and order in the province, he could do so, and if he could not do that, he should better go home.

The chief justice directed the deputy attorney general to summon the attorney general because the name of Frontier Corps (FC) was being used in connection with the mutilated bodies. Similarly, the bench has asked for an explanation on the issue of mutilated bodies found in different parts of the province from the Inspector General of FC, Balochistan, in this regard.

Underlining the need for a solution to the Balochistan issue, the CJ said it was necessary to conduct the local bodies elections. The Chief Justice remarked that all the four provincial governments were violating the Constitution by not holding the local bodies polls.

Earlier, Balochistan Home Secretary Naseebullah Khan Bazi informed the apex court that 359 mutilated bodies had been recovered from different parts of Balochistan since 2010. The court ordered the arrest of persons involved in the killing of these people. The CJ remarked that nobody had the right to take the life of anybody.

Earlier, as the proceedings of the case were being conducted, the CJ showed his displeasure over the absence of attorney general and summoned him to appear in the court today.