Police ordered to probe missing persons case

LAHORE

Justice Abdul Sami Khan of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday ordered police to complete the investigation into a case seeking recovery of a lawyer’s wife and her son. 

The judge earlier had summoned the DIG (investigation) who appeared on Tuesday. The judge expressed dismay over delay in completion of investigation and directed him to complete it at the earliest and submit report. After the proceedings both the parties had exchange of hot words out of the courtroom.

The judge had also reprimanded DSP, Racecourse circle, Safdar Kazmi for not completing the investigation of the abduction case within given time. Ms Zareena Bibi mother of Ayesha approached the LHC for recovery of her daughter and grandson. Petitioner counsel Asma Jahangir submitted that the petitioner’s 26 year daughter was working in the office of prominent lawyer Maqsood Buttar who late married Ayesha and out of this wedlock had a kid, Aliyan Ali. She said Ayesha with her son was living in a flat at Model Town. The counsel said the petitioner claimed that Ayesha often talked about irreconcilable differences with her husband. She alleged that on day of her disappearance Ayesha came to the petitioner’s residence and later left with a clerk of her husband. Counsel submitted that the last time petitioner on November 30, 2016 visited her daughter’s residence but there no traces of Ayesha and her son. Petitioner alleged that almost seven months had gone and they both were missing since then and apprehended that they were gone forever. She also alleged that the petitioner son-in-law had even tried to kill by pushing her off a cliff near Murree due to which she suffered severe injuries and multiple fractures. She said that the petitioner had also approached the police and the matter was under investigation and the police so far could not recover Ayesha and her son. She sought directions for recovery of Ayesha and son and action against her son-in-law who might be behind mysterious disappearance of the two.