The Supreme Court (SC) has accepted appeals for hearing against killing of four prisoners in custody of security agencies.
A three-member bench of apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar
Muhammad Chaudhry and comprising Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice
Tariq Parvez heard the petition on Wednesday filed by Advocate Tariq
Asad against the mysterious killing of four, out of eleven missing
persons (former prisoners of Adiyala jail, Rawalpindi).
During the course of hearing the petitioner showed the pictures of dead bodies of those who have been killed.
A member of the bench Justice Tariq Parvez said that I have read in
newspaper that the body of a prisoner had been recovered from fields.
The court approved the petition for hearing and issued notices to the
respondents including attorney General Maulvi Anwar-ul-Haq, Secretary
Defence Nargis Sethi, ISI Chief, DG, MI and others.
The chief justice termed the killings in custody of security agencies
as serious and directed the government to submit its report after
investigating the matter.
The court also issued notices to the chiefs of Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) and the secretary
defence.
Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq told the bench that he would
submit his report on the next hearing of the case. The legal director of
ISI Commander Shahbaz Bhatti was also present in the court. Later the
hearing was adjourned till Jan 30. SANA
