ISLAMABAD: A `suspicious` man arrested from the Supreme Court two days back disappeared mysteriously from Secretariat police station on Friday.

Police officials on condition of anonymity told Dawn that a case was registered against the man on March 12. But neither he was produced in court nor released on bail.

Some of the staff of the police station claimed that the man escaped early Friday but others said he walked away during the daytime.

The man, a resident of Chaklala Scheme Ill, reached the registrar office of the apex court and asked for details about the missing persons` case, the officials said. He also inquired about the next hearing on March 18.

When the court officials asked him for his identification, he replied that he was an ISI official. After coIIecting details, he left the office of the registrar.

Shortly afterward, he was spotted outside Court No 1. When Deputy Superintendent of the SC, Zawar Hussain, asked the man to produce his official identity card, he started making excuses. On suspicion, the man was taken into custody. The police claimed that he was mentally disturbed and a case was also registered against him with Sadiqabad police station in 2010.

When contacted, Secretariat police station house officer (SHO) Inspector Abdul Rehman said investigating officer Noor Alam Khan had last shifted the man to a room from the lock-up for interrogation. Somehow, he escaped from there, he added.