by Malik Asad in Dawn, November 11th, 2020
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday summoned the Islamabad inspector general of police, SSP and an investigating officer in Abdullah Omar missing case. He was abducted by unknown persons in 2015.
Omar was allegedly involved in the murder of former federal minister for minority affairs Shahbaz
Bhatti and Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, the Federal Investigation Agency prosecutor in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
He was, however, acquitted in the Shahbaz Bhatti murder case.
IHC Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani while hearing the petition of the spouse of the missing person expressed displeasure over the ‘lethargy’ of the capital police.
In 2018, IHC also imposed a fine of Rs2 million on the police officials over their negligence in tracing the missing person.
The petitioner sought the release of her husband who is allegedly under the custody of security agencies.
She named the SHO Industrial Area, IGP Islamabad, the interior ministry and an intelligence agency as respondents.
The petitioner requested the court to order the respondents to produce her husband before the court.
She claimed that her husband was injured during a firing incident in Rawalpindi in May 2013 after which he became paralysed and lost his legs.
The incident was reported to the Ratta Amral police.
She said her husband was admitted to the Quaid-i-Azam International Hospital, Rawalpindi, when the respondents took him into custody in June 2013.
He remained in their custody till 2015 when he was released on bail by the anti-terrorism court of Islamabad, she added.
However, on June 20, 2015, he was abducted by the officials of security agencies, she alleged.
The petitioner said a lawyer, Hammad Dadan, was also accompanying her husband when he was abducted, but the lawyer was later released on a writ petition filed by his father Mumtaz Anwar.
The Islamabad police had arrested Omar, an alleged Al Qaeda activist, in June 2013 for his alleged involvement in attacking FIA prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar. Police claimed that Omar got injured when the prosecutor’s guard opened fire on the attackers.
According to police, Omar, who sustained three bullet injuries, reached the Quaid-i-Azam International Hospital and told doctors that he was fired upon by robbers.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1589679/igp-ssp-summoned-in-missing-person-case
