Govt produces 14 ‘missing’ persons in SC
- December 7, 2013, 4:40 pm
- National News
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ISLAMABAD, Dec 7 (Online): The government on Saturday produced 14 missing persons in the Supreme Court, reports said.
The so-called missing persons were produced before Justice Amir Hani Muslim, a member of the three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry which had taken up a case relating to a missing man named Yasin Shah.
The missing persons were brought in with their faces covered so that they could not be identified and the defence secretary asked the media not to take any footage of them or to release their names.
Security personnel also stopped members of the media from recording videos of them.
Attorney General Muneer A. Malik was also present in the court’s premises.
The missing persons will be seated in court room seven and will be brought in individually to court room six for what was previously reported to be an in-camera session.
Earlier on Friday, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif did not disclose the names of the 14 but said that seven of them were living a free life and could be produced whenever the court so desired. Two are internees and information about five others are unsubstantiated but may be confirmed in a day or two, the minister had told the bench during yesterday’s hearing.
