PESHAWAR, Aug 29: A station house officer (SHO) of a 10cal police station was arrested on Thursday after Peshawar`s district and sessions judge Shehbar Khan rejected his petition for pre-arrest bail in a case of `missing person` who was allegedly taken away by the SHO over four years ago and since then he had been missing.

The judge ruled that keeping in view facts of the case the petitioner, Arshid Khan, who was then SHO of Pishtakhara police station, was not entitled to the concession of pre-arrest bail.

The alleged detainee, Khairur Rehman, was taken away by a raiding police party from the Academy Town, Peshawar, on Feb 9, 2009 and later the Supreme Court ordered registration of the case. Following this, the FIR was registered at Pishtakhara police station on Sept 25, 2012.

Brother of the detainee and complainant in the case, Saifullah, has directly charged the SHO for kidnapping his brother. He alleged that they were resident of Bajaur Agency and due to precarious law and order situation his brother, Khairur Rehman and sister Khaista Jana were residing at the Academy Town.

The complainant stated that his brother resided in the upper storey of a rented house whereas an Afghan family was living on its ground floor. He said that the police party, headed by Arshid Khan, raided the house and recovered an abducted child from the Afghan family. He added that the police also took away his brother and sister along with her two children.

Later, the woman and her children were released and she recorded her statement with the police. She claimed that at the time of her release Arshid gave her Rs1,000 with the assurance that after interrogating her brother he would also be released in next few days.

Public prosecutor Qaiser Shah contended that the SHO was directly charged with abduction of the detainee. He added that the Supreme Court had also taken notice of this case and the FIR against the SHO was registered on its direction. He stated that the children of the woman had also identified the SHO and stated that he had taken the family away.

The petitioner`s counsel stated that he was falsely implicated in the case and had no involvement in the disappearance of Khairur Rehman.