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