QUETTA: The Supreme Court today (Thursday) has declared the Balochistan police report on five missing persons ‘unsatisfactory’ and directed the authorities to recover them within two weeks.
A three-member bench, comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Ijazul Ahsan, and Justice Faisal Arab, heard the suo motu case at the SC’s Quetta Registry.
Additional Chief Secretary Hafiz Basit, Member of Balochistan Assembly Qadir Nayal, and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Operations Quetta Ghulam Asghar were presented during today’s hearing.
During the hearing, SSP Operations Ghulam Asghar told the court that the police were not able to determine whether the five people had gone missing or were abducted.
According to the report submitted to the court, the Balochistan police claimed that they had eyewitnesses on record, identifying the cars in which the missing persons were being taken.
“The investigators had written a letter to the Excise and Taxation Department for details of the vehicles,” the report claimed.
In this regard, the Chief Justice of Pakistan said, “Issuing a letter is not the job of the police,” adding, “the police should visit the spot and conduct a thorough investigation,” he added.
CJP Gulzar further said that every other car in Quetta was a non-custom paid. “Aerial firing is being carried out. All this is being done under the nose of the police,” he remarked.
The hearing of the case was adjourned for four weeks, with direction for the Balochistan Inspector General of Police Mohsin Abbas Butt to appear through video link in the next hearing.
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