Detention case

The SHC issued notices to the provincial home secretary and others on a petition seeking release of a man, reportedly taken into custody over his alleged involvement in the October, 2014 attack on the Karachi airport. 

The family of Sarmad Siddiqui submitted that authorities had detained Siddiqui despite the fact that he had been acquitted by the court of law, and that his detention was a violation of the fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution. The court was pleaded to order the authorities concerned to release him.

A local court had, in March this year, acquitted Siddiqui in the case pertaining to a shootout with police near Saddar.

Besides Siddiqui, two more people were arrested. The accused was said to be associated with the Al Qaeda and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and was charged with allegedly attacking police officials, on October 15, 2014, and engaging them in a shootout near Saddar.

A case was registered under Sections 353 (criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 324 (attempted murder) and 34 (common intention) of Pakistan Penal Code at the CID Civil Lines police station. The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the police had claimed to arrest them on October 28, 2014. According to the CID, unlicensed weapons were seized from Asif and Nadeem.