ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: The Supreme Court ordered the district police officer (DPO) of Karak on Wednesday to interrogate his predecessor for his perceived role in facilitating intelligence personnel to detain two locals accused of retrieving from rubble the bodies of militants killed in a drone attack in North Waziristan.

A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, had taken up a case relating to disappearance of Naveedur Rehman and Mohammad Naseem Iqbal on Aug 30, 2011, from their native village of Dagar Naraee, in Karak district.

Azizur Rehman, a retired non-commissioned army officer and brother of Naveedur Rehman, claimed that former DPO Sajid Khan Mohmand and former SHO of the Khurram (Karak) police station Pir Mohsin Shah knew everything about their disappearances.

During the proceedings, a relative of the kidnapped persons accused police of assisting the intelligence agencies.

Both the missing persons were students of Islami Madressah Warana in Mir Hassan Khel, Karak, and allegedly had connections with militants.

Additional Attorney General Tariq Khokhar informed the court that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Military Intelligence (MI) had carried out a comprehensive scrutiny and concluded that the two persons were not in their custody.

But the chief justice said the former DPO, who was in attendance in the court and claimed to have 25 years of service, had knowledge about the matter.

Sajid Khan tried to explain that he had talked to the sector commanders of ISI and MI in Bannu and Kohat and they denied that the kidnapped persons were in their possession. He said the present case was not the only example where army personnel came to pick up wanted persons.

The court ordered DPO Atiqullah Wazir to interrogate Sajid Khan to find out whereabouts of the missing persons and submit a report after one week.

CHAKWAL CASE: The Supreme Court ordered reinvestigation into a case relating to disappearance of two brothers, Umer Hayat and Umer Bakht. They were allegedly picked up by the ISI on April 5, 2010, in Chakwal. The court issued the order on a plea filed by the ministry of defence on behalf of intelligence agencies.

In his inquiry report submitted to the apex court on August 15, a sessions judge acknowledged that the two brothers had been picked up by the intelligence agencies.

Consequently, the apex court had ordered the ISI through the defence ministry to produce them on Sept 28.

AAG Tariq Khokhar and Defence of Human Rights Pakistan chairperson Amina Masood Janjua are required to visit Chakwal on Thursday to join the reinvestigation by the sessions judge.

In another case of missing persons, a separate SC bench, headed by Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, was informed that the authorities responsible for maintaining 25 internment centres in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been asked to carry out a search for Hafiz Jameel, a labourer who was picked up in Rawalpindi on January 18, 2011, when he was going to his workplace. The same evening some intelligence personnel came to his house and took into possession two huge bundles from the roof.

Police, with the help of call data record, later went to a building in Sector G-9/4, Islamabad, but were told to return. The building was stated to be one of the offices of the ISI.