Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday, accepted a police officer’s request and granted him more time to trace and arrest the men who robbed a lady health worker.
On Tuesday, the judge had warned SSP Babar Bakht Qureshi that he would complain to the Establishment Division. But that did not happen as the judge had to leave to join a full bench of the high court.
When the hearing resumed on Wednesday, the SSP requested the court for time to arrest the culprits. The judge granted him till February 19 and directed him to bring a progress report with him.
The judge was hearing a petition on a bail plea filed by Amir Sheikh, a salesman at the mobile shop where the snatched mobile phone was sold. Sheikh has submitted that he is being wrongly implicated in the FIR registered by Shahdara police. He alleges that the FIR was filed with malafide intentions.
According to the FIR, registered on the complaint of one Rizwan Akhtar Rana, Robina Naz – the complainant’s sister and a leady health worker – was hit by two men on a motorcycle, while she was on foot. The men took away her bag that had a mobile phone, gold jewellery weighing five tolas and Rs25,000 in cash. Both Naz’s legs were fractured in the hit.
During the previous hearings, the judge granted Sheikh bail but took up the matter of investigation after finding discrepancies in police account. The judge had directed the SSP to complete the investigation “on merit” and arrest the culprits.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2013.