{"id":9975,"date":"2023-10-02T08:32:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/lhc-gives-pindi-police-one-week-to-recover-aml-chief-sheikh-rashid\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T08:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:32:06","slug":"lhc-gives-pindi-police-one-week-to-recover-aml-chief-sheikh-rashid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/lhc-gives-pindi-police-one-week-to-recover-aml-chief-sheikh-rashid\/","title":{"rendered":"LHC gives Pindi police one week to recover AML chief Sheikh Rashid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The Lahore High Court\u2019s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Monday gave the city police a week to recover Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid, whose lawyer has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1776399\">claimed<\/a> that he had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The PTI ally was reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1776399\">detained<\/a> from his residence by \u201cplain clothes men\u201d, his lawyer Sardar Abdul Razzak Khan had said on September 17. Rashid\u2019s nephew Sheikh Shakir and houseworker Sheikh Imran had also been arrested and taken to an \u201cundisclosed location\u201d, according to the lawyer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1778726\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Days later, police submitted City Police Officer (CPO) Khalid Hamdani\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1777276\">report<\/a>to the court, which stated that Rashid was neither in their custody nor was he arrested by the Rawalpindi police.<\/p>\n<p>On September 26, while Raziq argued before the court that his client was arrested by the Rawalpindi police, the latter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1778098\/lhc-directs-authorities-to-provide-better-facilities-to-parvez-elahi-in-jail\">denied<\/a> having the politician in their custody.<\/p>\n<p>The court had then directed the police to locate Rashid\u2019s whereabouts and asked the law enforcement agency to make an all-out effort for his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan of the LHC\u2019s Rawalpindi bench resumed the proceedings over the plea against the former interior minister\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Raziq and Sardar Shehbaz Raza appeared as Rashid\u2019s counsels while Rawalpindi Regional Police Officer (RPO) Syed Khurram Ali was present as the police\u2019s representative.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the court ordered the RPO to recover the AML chief within a week and present him before the court.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"the-hearing\" href=\"#the-hearing\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>The hearing<\/h2>\n<p>At the outset of the hearing, the police informed the court, \u201cSheikh Rashid\u2019s nephew and worker have come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court then dismissed the RPO\u2019s report, saying, \u201cThe RPO has crossed limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It warned the police that a case would be filed against the senior superintendent of police (operations), the deputy superintendent of police and four station house officers who were allegedly involved in Rashid\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>At this point during the hearing, the ex-interior minister\u2019s lawyer said: \u201cAfter arresting him from [his] home, Sheikh Rashid was taken to the Golra Sharif intelligence office. There are videos present of transferring him to the Golra intelligence office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To this, Justice Khan said: \u201cThis warning of [recovering him in] a week is the last. If Sheikh Rashid is not found, I will get cases registered against all officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Directing the lawyer and the petitioner to submit affidavits about the AML chief\u2019s arrest, the court ordered the police to recover him in a week and present him before the court.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"hearing-on-plea-against-sealing-of-lal-haveli\" href=\"#hearing-on-plea-against-sealing-of-lal-haveli\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>Hearing on plea against sealing of Lal Haveli<\/h2>\n<p>Separately, Justice Mirza Waqas Rauf of the LHC\u2019s Rawalpindi bench took up a plea against Rashid\u2019s Lal Haveli residence being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1777082\/authorities-seal-sheikh-rashids-lal-haveli-residence-in-rawalpindi\">sealed<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1777124\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>During the hearing, Raziq argued that the residence was sealed without any prior notice. He noted that there was already a court order present regarding one unit of Lal Haveli.<\/p>\n<p>The additional attorney general (AAG) informed the court that the property had been sealed on the orders of the Evacuee Trust Property Board chairman.<\/p>\n<p>He further said he had the ETPB\u2019s responses \u201cready\u201d and would submit them by next week.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the court ordered the AAG to submit all responses before the next hearing, which will be held on October 11.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lahore High Court\u2019s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Monday gave the city police a week to recover Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid, whose lawyer has claimed that he had been arrested. The PTI ally was reportedly detained from his residence by \u201cplain clothes men\u201d, his lawyer Sardar Abdul Razzak Khan had said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/10\/02124125814950f.jpg?r=124223","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}