ISLAMABAD: The police brought Islamabad’s ‘missing person’, Muneeb Akram, in front of the Islamabad High Court on Monday. The court had set October 3 as the deadline for the federal capital police to produce him.

Earlier, sources told Aaj News that Muneeb, 29, returned home on Monday morning, just moments before the high court in the federal capital was set to hear the case pertaining to his recovery.

Munir was allegedly picked up on August 20, said the first information report (FIR), available with Aaj Digital and registered at the Noon police station.

IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah presided over the hearing of a petition moved by Muneeb’s father Muhammad Akram.

“This is suddenly the second, third incident, explain why this is happening,” IHC Chief Justice Minallah said. “Tell me, who is responsible for this?” the judge asked the representatives of the defence ministry.

The representative said that the ministry had asked the intelligence agencies to find the missing person after the court orders were issued.

He added that after an investigation by both agencies, it emerged that neither had detained Muneeb.

“Our intelligence agencies are among the best in the world,” IHC CJ Minallah said, adding that if any citizen was picked up, the job of the agencies was to find out about it.

“It’s not the job of the agencies to just say we don’t have [the missing person],” CJ Minallah said and asked who was responsible for all this.

He added that the court has determined the responsible parties in its detailed judgment. “If this boy was not found, the court would have held them all responsible. You are directed to read this judgment once.”

Background

This case was heard after a single bench of the Islamabad High Court asked on Friday the secretaries of defence and interior, sector commanders of intelligence agencies and the commissioner of the federal capital to trace a missing person and produce him on Oct 3 or appear in person in court.

Islamabad IGP Akbar Nasir Khan and other senior officials had assured the court at the last hearing that “no stone would be left unturned” to trace the petitioner’s son.

The FIR, which the police say was registered on the same day, states that around six to seven men visited Muneeb’s residence at around 1am. “They didn’t say who they were or where they were from,” the FIR quoted the father as saying.

“They took my son’s cell phone, laptop and the digital video recorder (DVR) of surveillance cameras installed at the residence.”

This is the second such case after one reported on September 22 when the Islamabad police presented 27-year-old Haseeb Hamza an hour before the court deadline ended. The IHC had ordered that it would summon intelligence officials in the case of a missing person otherwise.