lahore

April 17, 2020

LHC orders release of theft accused arrested when he was 2

LAHORE:The Lahore High Court on Thursday ordered release of a man arrested by police on a charge of stealing Rs350,000 at the age of two in year 2005.Ramzana Bibi had filed a habeas corpus petition for the release of her 17-year-old son Muhammad Rafiq from alleged illegal detention of Sialkot police. She contended that the police arrested her son in a fabricated case at the behest of the complainant.She said the police registered the FIR in 2015 about a theft incident allegedly took place in...