Bogus reports on Missing Persons by LEAs irk Sindh High Court

Expressing extreme annoyance over the patchy reports of police and the home department on the constitutional petitions for the recovery of several ‘missing’ persons, the Sindh High Court on Wednesday directed the respondent authorities to file their respective replies on the matter within one month.

Headed by Justice Aftab Ahmed Gorar, a division bench warned the respondent police officials of appropriate actions against them if they failed to come up with proper investigation into the cases of missing persons.
Justice Gorar came down hard on a police investigator for filing a shabby and “stereotyped” report regarding the investigation into the disappearance of a man, Yasin Jabbar.
The judge warned that the police officer who filed a bogus report in the missing person case would be placed under suspension. “They will mend their ways only when their salaries are withheld,” he remarked.
Justice Gorar said that the police officials did not make efforts in tracking down the missing persons and they always had pretext for not efficiently working on the cases.
The bench directed the provincial police chief, director general of Rangers, DIGs concerned and other officials to file their respective replies in a month.
Many innocent Shia Muslims have also been subjected to enforced disappearances but they are neither produced in courts of law for trial not their arrest and detention is officially owned by the security agencies.