ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has directed the SSP operations Islamabad to procure credible information in respect of torture cells by making publication in the newspaper and invite the informants to come forward and furnish necessary information, with the guarantee that their names would not be disclosed in any case.

A three member bench of the apex court comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Ch. Ijaz Ahmed gave the directives while hearing suo moto regarding existence of private torture cells by the police, a statement said on Thursday.

The court further ordered that after completion of this process a detailed report shall be submitted to the Court till June 8. “As far as the question of maintaining the torture cells by the police is concerned, in this behalf few reports have been submitted denying the allegations but we are not satisfied with the same because perusal of the report published in daily “Khabrain” date 13.1.2009 reveals that there were so many persons who died in custody of the police”, the order of the court said.

Shah Khawar, Additional Advocate .General, Punjab and Mr. Tahir Alam, SSP, Operation, Islamabad appeared before the Court on Court notice while Naseem Akhtar with her daughter appeared as complainant. Mr. Shah Khawar requested the court to grant some time to the SSP so that he may conduct inquiry personally and redress the grievance of the applicant. NNI

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