Lawyer’s wife, son recovery case adjourned

LAHORE Justice Abdul Sami Khan of the Lahore High Court put off till July 12 further hearing of recovery of a lawyer’s wife and her son.

The judge on Friday had in camera proceedings relating to application seeking transfer of investigation. Zareena Bibi, mother of Ayesha, approached the LHC for recovery of her daughter and grandson.

Petitioner's counsel Barrister Usama submitted that petitioner’s 26-year old daughter had been working in office of prominent lawyer Maqsood Buttar who married Ayesha and out of this wedlock had a kid Aliyan Ali.

He said 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. He alleged that on the day of her disappearance Ayesha reached 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 were no traces of Ayesha and her son. The petitioner alleged that almost seven months had gone and they both were missing since then and apprehended that they were gone forever. He 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.

He 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. He alleged that the police was favouring the accused and in last six months never summoned him for investigation. She sought directions for recovery of Ayesha and her son and action against her son-in-law who might be behind mysterious disappearance of the two.