LHC gives RPO Rawalpindi one more week in Sh Rasheed case
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Asking Regional Police Officer (RPO) Syed Khurram Ali to submit an affidavit that Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed is not in Rawalpindi, the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday made it clear to him that if tomorrow Rasheed was recovered from the city, action would be taken against him, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
During the hearing of the petition filed for the recovery of the AML chief and two others, Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan of the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench conveyed it to the RPO in clear and unambiguous terms that he would not summon any other official, and that he (the RPO) would recover him and bring him to the court.
The judge reminded the RPO that he had sought one week’s time from the court for the recovery of Rasheed, and asked him as to what steps he had taken so far on that front.
The RPO sought one more week from the court, which the court granted.
Speaking on the occasion, Rasheed’s lawyer Sardar Abdur Razzaq said that two other persons had also been picked up along with the seasoned politician who had nothing to do with politics. “Police are pressurizing my client’s family to withdraw their petition and give a statement that the two men had gone of their own free will, and they will be set free,” he revealed.
The lawyer prayed to the court to watch the footages obtained from the CCTV cameras installed at the private housing society from where the AML chief had been whisked away by the police. “The SSP Operations, four SHOs and one DSP had gone to the society to take Rasheed into custody. Eyewitnesses are there to give an account of how the events took place,” he told the court.
He requested the court to summon the interior secretary on the next hearing.
The court then adjourned the case’s hearing until October 2.
Sheikh Rasheed and two others namely Sheikh Rashid Shafiq, his nephew, and servant Sheikh Imran had been arrested from Rawalpindi’s private housing society over a week ago.
Reporter: Irshad Qureshi