LHC rescues sugar mill official’s family from police

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday placed the Sadar Police Station, Chiniot, station house officer under court-arrest after the wife and four children of an employee of the Ramzan Sugar Mills were recovered from illegal police detention.
Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu also summoned the Chiniot district police officer and other police officials on the next hearing. A bailiff had recovered Amina Ali and her four minor children from the Sadar Police Station, Chiniot. Amina’s maternal uncle Prof Mustajab Qureshi had filed a petition for the recovery of the detainees.
According to petitioner’s counsel Aftab Bajwa, police abducted Ramzan Sugar Mills Assistant Cane Manager Muhammad Ali and shifted him to an unknown place, at the behest of some officials of the mills. A police team raided Ali’s house and also picked up his wife and children, he added.
Amina, having a master’s degree from the Punjab University with distinction, told the court she was a teacher in a government school. She said the police also abducted her old mother from their Model Town (Lahore) house and later threw her outside the house.
The SHO, Muhammad Younas, denied the charges and told the court he never saw the woman before. Justice Sidhu lamented that police department’s falsity had become a universal truth. He observed that the activities of the Punjab Police were more depressing than those of their colleagues in other provinces and they had become an unbridled horse. The judge got the SHO arrested by the court security staff and also directed Bajwa to bring Amina’s mother and children in the court on Thursday (today).