Islamabad, August 10: A Pakistani court today asked the police to register an FIR against former military dictator Pervez Musharraf for “illegally” detaining 60 members of the superior judiciary after imposing Emergency in 2007, two weeks after the apex court declared his move as “unconstitutional.” District and Sessions Judge Akmal Raza issued the order here after lawyer Aslam Ghuman filed an application in his court asking for a case to be registered against Musharraf, who is currently in Europe.
This is the first time that a court had asked police to register a case against Musharraf. Several persons, including relatives of people detained by intelligence agencies, have approached police for registering cases against Musharraf but officials have been reluctant to act.
In his application, Ghuman accused Musharraf of illegally detaining over 60 judges, including Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, after imposing emergency. Ghuman also complained to the judge that police were reluctant to act on his request for an FIR to be registered against Musharraf.
Ghuman said he had filed a complaint with a local police officer some time ago but no action was taken. The judge ordered that the case should be registered by the Secretariat police station in the heart of Islamabad.
Ghuman later visited the police station, where the station house officer accepted his application and recorded his statement.
—-PTI–