SHC adjourns hearing of KSM, Ramzi case

KARACHI - The Division Bench of Sindh High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing regarding the dentition of Pakistani citizens including, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Yousuf Ramzi and others in the US, till 16th December. On the request of Deputy Attorney General (DAG), Amir Raza Naqvi, the bench comprising on Chief Justice SHC, Anwar Zaheer Jamali, and Ghulam Dastagir gave further time to submit statements from the federal government. The DAG said that on the directive of court, comments would be submitted during the next hearing on behalf of the government, while Advocate Ghulam Qadir Jatoi was representing the petitioner Marryam whose husband, Abdul Aziz, was reportedly detained in a foreign prison. Jatoi had submitted that despite being a Pakistani national, her family members including her son Ammar Baloch, husband Abdul Aziz, brother Sheikh Khalid and another close relative Yousuf Ramzi had been handed over to the US by Pakistani forces. The petitioner requested detainees must be brought back as their detention in foreign prison was illegal. She further said that being Pakistani citizens, they should be tried in their own country, if government suspects their involvement in any illegal act. In the petition, she made respondent to federal government, cabinet division, intelligence agencies and other concerned authorities. She further said that she had no contact with her family members since their dentition, adding that media was the only source of information in this regard. Another SHC bench, headed by Justice Khilji Arif Hussein, has reserved the verdict regarding a referendum in Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC). The hearing was conducted on the petition moved by KESC management against the decision by a full bench of National Industrial Relations (NIR) in which the management was instructed to conduct the referendum while contract employees were declared eligible to take part in it. The referendum was scheduled to take place for the new CBA in KESC after ten years while the court has issued stay-order in this regard. Meanwhile, a division bench of SHC comprising on Justice Dr Qamaruddin Bohra and Justice Arshad Noor Khan granted the bail plea to eighteen officials of Pakistan Customs Department allegedly involved in corruption case of Bawan Shah Group. The court granted them bail against a fine of Rs 0.5 million each. The officials including Rashid Qureshi, Altaf and others were already on interim bail and their case was pending with the NAB court. On the other hand, Kausar Jabeen, the mother of renowned gold trader Kamran Tessori, has moved a petition against jail authorities accusing them of guilty o contempt of the court. She submitted that despite clear order of the Sindh High Court, the jail authorities were not allowing the family members of Kamran Tessori, detained in Karachi Central Jail, to meet him. Kausar alleged that on Wednesday she along with her lawyers went to the jail but the concerned authorities did not allow them to meet him.

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