HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court has issued notices to DIG of police and SSP of Hyderabad, SHO of Market police station and other police officials on a constitutional petition filed by a widow, seeking recovery of her missing son.

Ms Shahnaz Begum filed a petition through Sher Mohammad Leghari advocate, requesting the division bench comprising Justices Munib Akhtar and Ghulam Qadir Leghari to direct respondent police authorities to find her son.

She said that her son went out of home on July 22 on his motorcycle and laterin the day she learntthathe had been picked up by police and falsely implicated in an FIR lodged at Hatri police station about an encounter that took place the same day on July 22 in which police claimed to have killed three activists of banned outfits in Bodhani area.Police had brought the three bandits to the area for recovery of the cash they had looted from a private bank branch in the jurisdiction of Market police station.

She said that she could not find her son and feared that he would also be killed in a fake encounter like others and urged the court to direct the respondent police officials to find her son`s whereabouts.

The court fixed petition for hearing along with an identical case of another petitioner, Saleemuddin Shaikh, who was seeking recovery of his son Hamza.

Encounter termed `fake` Family members of one of the three alleged banned outfit militants killed in an alleged encounter on July 22 have said that their child had been killed in an extrajudicial action by police on Friday within the jurisdiction of Hatri police station whereas another boy of the family is still missing since then.They appealed to the prime minister, the chief justice of Sindh High Court (SHC), governor and other authorities to ensure recovery of the missing child and take action against those who were harassing them. They sought justice, claiming that they were being threatened by unknown people on phone.

Speaking at a press conference at the local press club on Wednesday Rafigur Rehman Memon, Fahad Memon`s father, and Taufigur Rehman Memon, Rafig`s brother, have said Hafiz Fahad Memon went missing on July 20 when he left for Khyber, Matiari district.

They mounted a search for him, but failed to ascertain his whereabouts, they added.

They said that when asked, the DIG office staff told them that no such person was in custody of police. They said their brother-in-law Noor Ahmed Shahani had told them that his son Mohammad Ashaar Shahani, 18, had also gone missing when he left for offering Friday prayers.