Three more Sufi’s sons move PHC against detention

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 By By our correspondent

PESHAWAR: Three more sons of Maulana Sufi Muhammad, chief of the banned TNSM, on Tuesday moved the Peshawar High Court (PHC) against their detention under Section 3(1) of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO). The petitioners, Fazlullah, Abdullah and Abdur Rahman, filed a petition in the PHC through one of their relatives, Muhammad Nasir.The petitioners stated that on August 31, 2009 the Peshawar and Saidu Sharif police picked them up from their house in Dir Colony on Ring Road in Peshawar and put them in illegal confinement in different police stations, including the CID, Peshawar. The petitioners’ lawyer prayed the court that the detention order of the petitioners was against the law and facts and material available on the record, thus their detention order be declared void.