The Lahore High Court’s (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 “plain clothes men”, his lawyer Sardar Abdul Raziq Khan had said on September 17. Rashid’s nephew Sheikh Shakir and houseworker Sheikh Imran had also been arrested and taken to an “undisclosed location”, according to the lawyer.
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Days later, police submitted City Police Officer (CPO) Khalid Hamdani’s report to the court, which stated that Rashid was neither in their custody nor was he arrested by the Rawalpindi police.
On September 26, while Raziq argued before the court that his client was arrested by the Rawalpindi police, the latter denied having the politician in their custody.
The court had then directed the police to locate Rashid’s whereabouts and asked the law enforcement agency to make an all-out effort for his recovery.
