Lahore DIG summoned in missing woman, son case

LAHORE: Justice Abdul Sami Khan of the Lahore High Court on Monday while hearing a petition for recovery of a lawyer’s wife and her son directed the DIG operations to appear on Tuesday (today).

The judge reprimanded DSP Racecourse Circle Safdar Kazmi for not completing the investigation of the abduction case within the given time. Zareena Bibi, mother of Ayesha, approached the LHC for recovery of her daughter and grandson.

Petitioner’s counsel Asma Jahangir submitted that the petitioner’s 26-year-old daughter had been working in the office of prominent lawyer Maqsood Buttar who late married Ayesha and out of this wedlock had a kid Aliyan Ali. She said that Ayesha with her son was living in a flat in Model Town. The counsel said, the petitioner claimed that Ayesha often talked about irreconcilable differences with her husband. She also alleged that on the day of her disappearance Ayesha came to the petitioner’s residence and later left with clerk of her husband. The counsel submitted that the last time petitioner on November 30, 2016, visited her daughter’s residence but there was no traces of Ayesha and her son.

The petitioner alleged that almost seven months had passed and they both were missing since then and apprehended that they were gone forever. She also alleged that the petitioner son-in-law had even tried to kill by pushing her off a cliff near Murree due to which she suffered multiple fractures. She said the petitioner had also approached the police and the matter was under investigation and the police so far could not recover Ayesha and her son.She sought directions for recovery of Ayesha and son and action against her son-in-law who might be behind the mysterious disappearance of the two.