PHC disposes of petition as missing boy returns home

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday disposed of a writ petition after it was informed that a grade six missing student had retuned home safe and sound.
The student Ismail, who had been allegedly picked up by the police and personnel of the secret agencies a year back, was released unharmed.
A division bench of the PHC comprising of Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel and Justice Irshad Qaiser disposed of the habeas corpus petition. It was filed by his father Mohammad Usman.
Mohim Afridi appeared for Ismail. He informed the bench that the missing student had returned home.
His father had claimed in the petition that cops from the Khazana Police Station along with personnel of the secret agencies had picked up Ismail from home on September 27, 2014.
He said his son was studying at the Sahara Public School in Bakhshi Pul village on the outskirts of the provincial capital.
Mohammad Usman informed the bench that his son returned home in Ramazan. However, he didn’t say on what charge his son had been arrested.
He said the police and secret agencies personnel also had picked up his three relatives in October 2014 and their whereabouts were still unknown.
Meanwhile, the bench gave a last chance to the defence and interior ministries and directed them to submit replies in the cases of the three missing persons, including Aman Khan, Naqeebullah and Amjad Khan.
Their relatives claimed that Naqeebullah was an auto rickshaw driver while Aman Khan was picked up three days after he returned from Dubai.
The court also summoned Medical Officer of Ghallanai Internment Centre to the court on the next hearing for issuing two contradictory medical reports about the health of an ailing internee, Umar Said, who was a suspected terrorist.
The court observed that in one medical report, the medical officer stated that the internee was suffering from Hepatitis-C and high blood pressure while in the second medical report he stated that his health condition was good.
Meanwhile, the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday restrained the Executive Engineer Highway of the Fata Division from opening the tenders of road construction in the Bajaur Agency till the next order of the court.
A two-member bench stayed the pre-qualification process for construction of roads. Justice Nisar Hussain Khan and Justice Muhammad Daud Khan were on the bench.
Notices were issued to Chief Engineer of Works and Services Fata, Superintendent Engineer of Northern Communication and Works Fata Circle and Executive Engineer Highway Fata Division. They were directed to submit replies in the petition that had challenged the tenders for construction of roads.
The bench stayed the construction of the roads in a writ petition of two construction companies including M/S Haji Alam Zeb and Sons and M/S Ittehad and Company, which had challenged the tenders in the high court.
The petitioners lawyer, Muhammad Ijaz Sabi, submitted before the bench that the Executive Engineer Highway Fata Division, Bajaur Agency had first on May 1, 2015 declared the petitioners illegible. He invited financial bids from them for the construction of six kilometers road of Chaw Tamu Salarzai and Bajree to Batwar in the tribal region.