KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday directed the provincial authorities to file a report within a week about special powers being enjoyed by the Sindh Rangers.
A two-judge panel led by Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M. Shaikh also ordered the paramilitary force official in question to submit a report regarding the petitioner Mohammad Azam’s vehicle, which he said was in the custody of the Rangers.
The bench questioned whose statute gave the paramilitary force the authority to halt and take citizenry vehicles.
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A provincial law officer submitted that besides police, other law enforcement agencies had been given policing powers under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
Subsequently, the bench questioned whether such vehicles, said to be in possession of Rangers, were used in incidents of terrorism.
The petitioner, who identified himself as a dairy farmer, named as respondents the Rangers director general and the commander of the North Nazimabad wing. When he returned from visiting his native village in Punjab, he discovered that both of his employees and his car were missing.
He claimed that after approaching the relevant police station, both the police and personal sources informed him that the respondents were in control of his car at Rangers Wing 35, which is located in North Nazimabad.
