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Court deputes bailiff to produce Shahbaz Sharif`s family
Islamabad, July 01: The Lahore High Court has deputed a bailiff to recover and produce before it today the family members of deposed premier Nawaz Sharif`s brother, Shahbaz, as police conducted raids in Lahore to search three women members of the family which the government wants deported to Jeddah.
Islamabad, July 01: The Lahore High Court has deputed
a bailiff to recover and produce before it today the family
members of deposed premier Nawaz Sharif's brother, Shahbaz, as
police conducted raids in Lahore to search three women members
of the family which the government wants deported to Jeddah.
Acting on a petition filed by Sharif's lawyer Ashtar Ausaf
Ali alleging that the police had laid siege to their home,
Justice Raja Muhammad Sabir yesterday appointed a bailiff to
raid the Sharif's model town residence in Lahore to recover
Nusrat Shahbaz and her children Hamza, Salman, Jawaria and
Rabia and produce them before the court.
The court passed the orders after advocate-general of
Punjab Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi stated that the court may
resort to the appointment of bailiff if the petitioners
insists that Shahbaz's family members were illegally detained
in their house.
Police teams, meanwhile, conducted raids to trace the
wife and daughters of Shahbaz who have been ordered by the
government to leave Pakistan and join their exiled family in
Jeddah.
"The police used massive force in the post midnight
raid. They searched every nook and corner of our house and
harassed our ladies," Salman Shahbaz, the younger son of
Shahbaz was quoted as saying by daily 'Dawn'.
The whereabouts of the three are not known after the authorities tried to forcibly deport them last week.
Police also briefly held Sahbaz's son Hamza and his relatives to pressure them to hand over the three. However, reports from Lahore said police lifted the siege after they agreed to leave voluntarily.
Bureau Report
The whereabouts of the three are not known after the authorities tried to forcibly deport them last week.
Police also briefly held Sahbaz's son Hamza and his relatives to pressure them to hand over the three. However, reports from Lahore said police lifted the siege after they agreed to leave voluntarily.
Bureau Report