MUZAFFARGARH: The mother of a suspected terrorist has alleged her son has been wrongly arrested in a police van attack case, claiming he was already in jail when the incident happened.

Wazir Bibi, the mother of suspect Ameen, said the intelligence agencies had picked up her son on Feb 15, 2014, while the police van was targeted on Feb 28, 13 days after her son went missing.

The family had already moved the Lahore High Court when the van was attacked.

Talking to the media here on Tuesday, Wazir Bibi threatened to commit suicide if her son was not released.

Three police officials were injuredin the cracker bomb attack on a police van on way to Layyah in 2014. Three days back, the police held a press conference and announced that Ameen was arrested in connection with the case when he was trying to flee.

Wazir Bibi said when Ameen was picked in 2014, she had approached the Muzaffargarh District Police Officer`s office but was told that the police did not know anything about her son.

Later, she moved the Lahore High Court Multan bench which ordered the police to register a case. However, she said, the DPO requested her not to do that, pledging her son would be released after some days.

`In April 2014, I came to know that Ameen was in custody of the New Multan police in an illegal weapons case. He was sent to the Central Jail, Multan, and remained there for three years,`she said.

Wazir Bibi said she or her son did not know about the Sanawan attack case as Ameen was not even a sus-pect in the FIR that included Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).

`When the court released Ameen on bail last week, the Kot Addu police raided my house at night when we were asleep and arrested Ameen and me. They released me on way to the police station but took Ameen with them,` she said.

Wazir Bibi claimed her son was innocent and the agencies had already interrogated him before he was sent to Multan jail.

She said that without her son she was living in misery being a widow and appealed to the chief justice, the chief minister and the inspector general of police to take action against the police officials responsible for the `illegality`. She said that she had also filed complaints to the chief minister and the inspector general of police for action.

Talking to Dawn, Kot Addu SubDivisional Police Officer Mujahid Birmani said the police were investigating.