December 25, 2020
KARACHI/WASHINGTON: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday struck down preventive detention of British nationality holder Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh and three others who were continuously detained for the last nine months under the anti-terrorism law despite their acquittal in the US journalist Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping and murder charges by the appellate court.
The court ordered none of the detenue shall be placed under any preventive detention order by the federal or provincial governments or by any law enforcement agencies without permission of the court. The court, however, ordered that names of the detainees shall be placed under the Exit Control List until such time as state appeals against their acquittal have been decided by the Supreme Court.
December 25, 2020
KARACHI/WASHINGTON: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday struck down preventive detention of British nationality holder Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh and three others who were continuously detained for the last nine months under anti-terrorism law despite their acquittal in the US journalist Daniel Pearl s kidnapping and murder charges by the appellate court.
The court ordered none of the detenue shall be placed under any preventive detention order by the federal or provincial governments or by any law enforcement agencies without permission of the court. The court, however, ordered that names of the detainees shall be placed under the Exit Control List until such time as state appeals against their acquittal have been decided by the Supreme Court. The court took an exception over conduct of the home secretary and observed that the home secretary issued preventive detention order against the detainees merely on receiving information by a DIG police that the petitione
Daniel Pearl case: Sindh court declares detention of accused illegal, orders release
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SHC says accused have been in jail for 18 years without committing any crime
SHC orders accused to appear before court when they are summoned
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court declared the detention of the accused exonerated in the Daniel Pearl case illegal and ordered their immediate release.
The court declared the notification regarding the detention of Umer Shaikh and four other accused illegal and ordered their immediate release. The court also directed officials to place the accused on the Exit Control List.
The court said the accused have been in jail for the last 18 years without committing any crime. It added that their imprisonment was illegal and ordered them to appear before the court when they are summoned.
SHC declares detention of accused in Daniel Pearl case illegal
Pakistan
Court directs officials to place accused on ECL
SHC says accused have been in jail for 18 years without committing any crime
SHC orders accused to appear before court when they are summoned
KARACHI: The detention of the accused exonerated in the Daniel Pearl case was declared illegal by the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday.
The SHC declared the notification regarding the detention of Umer Shaikh and four others illegal and ordered their immediate release. The court also directed officials to place the accused on the Exit Control List.
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