Ex-FCS chief Nisar Morai be provided medical treatment: SHC

Extends interim protective bail of provincial chief secretary in land allotment and regularisation case

Karachi

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday issued orders for the provision of medical treatment to under-detention former chairman of Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Nisar Morai. 

The directives were issued to Rangers authorities on a petition filed by Morai’s family. Petitioner Seema Naz, had submitted in the petition that her spouse was detained by the Rangers for a 90-day period on March 16, and that the family has not been allowed to meet him ever since.

She maintained that Morai was suffering from various ailments and required proper medical attention. Seema also informed the court that the family feared he would not be provided medical treatment so as to keep him under pressure since he had been detained for political motives.

She requested the court to direct the Rangers authorities to provide medical facilities to the detainee and have him examined by a senior medical practitioner; the petitioner also requested for the court to direct the authorities to allow his family members to meet him.

The Rangers’ counsel had submitted that the paramilitary force had a team of doctors who had examined the detainee and that his medical reports would be submitted.

The court directed the Rangers authorities to allow Morai’s family to meet him and submit report regarding his medical treatment by Friday, March 8.

A close aide of former president and co-chairman PPP Asif Ali Zardari, Morai was arrested from Islamabad on March 10.

The Rangers law officer had submitted before the administrative judge of the ATC that the detainee was involved in facilitating target killers, collecting extortion and had been charged with other offences which fell under the ambit of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

 

CS interim bail extended

The SHC extended interim protective bail of the provincial chief secretary, Siddique Memon, till May 10 in a case pertaining to allotment and regularisation of six acres of land situated in Scheme 33.

The court was hearing a petition filed by the chief secretary himself against the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB); Memon had assailed the call up notices of NAB with respect to the case.

Petitioner’s counsel Barrister Zamir Ghumro submitted that NAB had taken cognizance with regard to allotment and regularization of land in question to Mohammad Ayub. He submitted that allotment of land was cancelled but later on an application of submitted by Ayub, the allotment of was regularised in January 2008 by a committee headed by a retired judge of the high court.

He submitted that the petitioner had no nexus with the original allotment nor was he a member of the lands committee who had regularised the aforesaid allotment as he was posted secretary land utilization department after the allotment and regularization was carried out.

He submitted that NAB had also been made aware about the regularisation process of the lands committee, as two officers of the military, from the station headquarter, and five corps commanders were also members of the said committee along with officials of the finance and land utilization departments, and the process was completed after an examination of all relevant record and clarification.

The NAB’s counsel had earlier filed comments in the petition mentioning that the regularisation committee was deliberately misguided and facts were concealed from the committee. Besides, it stated that the man allotted the land in connivance with government officials managed to get fake receipts verified.