Yar Muhammad Rind arrested on Supreme Court’s order
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the Balochistan Assembly Yar Muhammad Rind was arrested on Thursday on the orders of the Supreme Court as he came out of the courtroom.
It may be noted here that the trial court and Balochistan High Court (BHC) had awarded life imprisonment to Yar Muhammad Rind in a murder case. He had not been appearing in the provincial courts for many years. However, he had filed a petition in the apex court against his imprisonment order.
The three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry heard the appeal. On this occasion, the chief justice ordered the arrest of Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind as per the requirements of law.
Counsel for Rind, advocate Akram Shaikh pleaded the court to take his client to Sindh House. The chief justice ordered to place him in the Secretariat police station as the law is equal for everyone and he should be presented again on Monday.
Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind took the plea that he was convicted over non-appearance in the courts. He submitted that he could not appear before the courts as the Chief Minister of the province Aslam Raisani was after his blood due to an old enmity between the Raisani and Rind tribes. He said that so far 200 people had been killed due to this hostility between the two tribes. He said that was the reason he was unable to go to Balochistan.
Our correspondent adds: Meanwhile, Yar Muhammad Rind was shifted to the Secretariat police station after his arrest on the orders of the Supreme Court. An FIR (No 18/9) was registered against him with the Sanni police station, Quetta in 2009.
The police station claimed when contacted by this correspondent that the accused was detained with other inmates in the lock-up but the sources disclosed that the police were treating him as a VVIP and providing him all the facilities in a separate room.
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