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Peshawar ATC Judge Shah Jee Rehman ordered judicial remand for Punjab police officers and directed the NWFP police to produce the detailed records before the court on September 1. Police sources said Frontier police were under pressure after lodging an FIR against the Punjab officials and that Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ahmad Naeem had also discussed the arrest of Punjab police with NWFP IGP Mohammad Sharif Virk.
On the orders of Nowshera District and Sessions Judge Khawaja Wajihuddin, the Frontier police arrested on August 17 five police officials of Punjab — Rana Gulzar, investigation in-charge at the China Chowk Police Station in Sialkot, Sub-Inspector Mohammad Sharif, Hawaldar Manzoor Ahmad and Constables Asif Nadeem and Sarfaraz — at Attock Bridge, along with h ‘kidnapped’ boy Qazi Sammad, 15.
The Nowshera district and sessions judge ordered Nowshera Kalan Police Station to book the Punjab officials under Section 365-A of the Anti-Terrorism Act in the boy’s kidnapping case, Section 354 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) for women’s disgrace, and Sections 449 and 452 of the PPC for trespassing.
Advocate Astaghfirullah, who appeared for the kidnapped boy’s grandmother, Imtiaz Begum, said NWFP police had removed non-bailable sections, including 365-A, from the FIR in order to help the Punjab officials’ release from the Nowshera Prison.
He, however, added that the Nowshera judicial magistrate had rejected bail applications of Punjab police twice on the grounds that the Nowshera district and sessions judge had charged police officials under section 365-A and other non-bailable sections. The judges had also observed that Punjab police should be produced in the Peshawar Anti-Terrorism Court as they have been charged in a kidnapping case in the warrant order. The lawyer said Nowshera Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Rauf Khattak had also fixed August 30 for their bail applications.
Imtiaz Begum, 70, approached the Nowshera district and sessions judge court on August 17 and registered a complaint that Punjab police has raided her house at 5am, thrashing the housewives and ‘kidnapping’ her nephew, Qazi Samad.
She informed the court that she initially called Rescue-15 before going to the concerned police station, which refused to take any action against the Punjab officials. To this, the court issued directives to the Frontier police stationed at Attock Bridge, which stopped a vehicle from which they recovered the kidnapped boy and arrested some officials, while another vehicle of the Punjab police succeeded in crossing over to Punjab from Attock Bridge.
According to police, Punjab officials had raided Qazi Sammad’s house to arrest his uncle, who was allegedly wanted by the Punjab police in several cases of car snatching. “Under the law, police of one province must seek permission from the home secretary before arresting a criminal or raiding an area in another province. Afterwards, police will communicate their cause of action with the local police station, which would register it in its daily dairy report and action would be taken with the help of local police,” Advocate Astaghfirullah stated. But in this case, neither the local police station was taken into confidence, nor was the matter brought into the notice of the NWFP home secretary, he added.
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