Failure to recover citizen: IHC slaps Rs10m fine on interior, defence secretaries, police
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad supreme court (IHC) on Friday imposed Rs10 million fine on the inside secretary, defence secretary, SP (investigation), JIT in-charge, and Golra SHO over their failure to research a missing person’s case.
IHC’s Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani said within the verdict that they jointly held liable for their failure to supply due protection to Ghulam Qadir.
The court said the state machinery is responsible during this case and by fixing the responsibility upon the aforesaid officials, the authorities are given 30 days to recover Qadir. The court announced on Friday its verdict on the writ petition filed by Qadir’s brother for his recovery.
The petitioner said 40-year-old Qadir was detainedwhile was travelling to his house near Orakzai Market together with his 13-year-old son on August 28, 2014. He reached near an underpass when five to 6 men during a white car detained him.
His lawyer argued that Qadir was kidnapped by enforcement agencies and has been missing since 2014. Qadir’s brother filed an FIR at the Golra Sharif police headquarters and even filed a complaint with the Commissioner of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances.
“The matter wasn't investigated by the police authorities despite the simplest efforts of the petitioner,” the court said in its order. The investigation officer of the case and therefore the SP were unable to justify any of their action on the idea of the investigation referred within the police diaries, the court said. “The case diaries reveal that they need not administered the investigation during a proper manner, rather they're willfully avoiding the investigation for the explanations best known to them.”
The commission declared the status of Qadir an enforced disappearance and directed officials of the inside ministry to supply him ahead of the commission, the court said, adding that no action was taken even then.
“The court isn't satisfied with the working of the local department also because the conduct of the inside and defence secretaries,” the decision said. “The entire background alone reflects that the local department isn't capable of investigating crimes.
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