Peshawar High Court orders release of 2 seminary students
PESHAWAR: A division bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) has ordered release of two seminary students who were picked up by the security personnel for their purported links with terrorists.
Zainullah and Inayatullah, both Afghan nationals, were rounded up by the law enforcers from a seminary situated on Warsak Road here for their alleged involvement in an attack on Frontier Corps checkpoint in Shabqadar area of Charsadda district about five months ago.
When a two-judge bench of the PHC, comprising Chief Justice Tariq Pervez Khan and Justice Said Marood Khan, took up the petition, the detainees counsel Kifayatullah said that on November 8, 2008 the station house officer of Mathra Police Station raided the seminary and picked up both the Afghan students on suspicion that they were involved in an attack on FC post.
He said that after keeping the students in a four-day illegal detention, the Mathra police handed them over to Khyber Agency political agent on November 12, 2008 who charged them under Section 40 of the Frontier Crimes Regulation and sent them to the Peshawar Central Prison.
He contended that the students were not involved in the attack on FC post as the incident occurred on November 14, 2008 and the police picked them on November 8, 2008. The police concerned charged them in the first information report for their involvement in bombing of the FC post. On this, the court ordered exclusion of the names of both the detainees and ordered the Khyber Agency political agent to release them on surety bonds.
