The Rawalpindi Bench of Lahore High Court has issued summons to the Adiala Jail authorities in the missing Deputy Superintendent Jail Muhammad Akram case.
District police authorities have been ordered to submit an affidavit for recovery in the petition of Deputy Superintendent of Jail Muhammad Akram, who is missing from Officers Colony of Adiala Jail, while summoning has been issued to the Superintendent of Adiala Jail for August 21.
The petition alleged that the Deputy Superintendent was abducted by the Intelligence Agency from his residence in Officers Colony.
According to media reports, Muhammad Akram has been detained by law enforcement agencies for allegedly facilitating PTI founder.
The said Deputy Superintendent was posted outside Adiala Jail in the month of June, but was staying with his family in Officers Colony of Adiala Jail.
Last week, Justice Muhammad Raza Qureshi of Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench filed a petition by Maimunah Riaz, wife of Muhammad Akram through lawyer Iman Mazari, which was heard by Justice Muhammad Raza Qureshi.
The court has issued notices to the concerned parties after the preliminary hearing.
Jail authorities submitted a report in the court of Additional Advocate General Malik Amjad Ali Khan claiming that since Muhammad Akram was not residing in the officers’ colony of Adiala Jail, the jail administration was unaware of his disappearance.
The report stated that Muhammad Akram was transferred from Adiala Jail in June, Petitioner did not contact the jail administration regarding the incident.
While the SHO Sadar Baruni Police Station told the court that the wife of the missing Deputy Superintendent has not registered a formal complaint of her husband’s alleged abduction.
Advocate Iman Mazari said during the hearing that the petitioner’s husband was abducted by the law enforcement agencies from the officers’ colony of Adiala Jail at 5 am on August 14.
Muhammad Akram told the authorities that he would change his clothes and come to the main gate, but the armed man kept ringing the house bell until Muhammad Akram came to the gate with his two sons, daughter and wife.
It was told in the court that their children are also eyewitnesses of their father’s abduction.
