{"id":47231,"date":"2024-09-03T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T11:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=47231"},"modified":"2024-09-03T16:32:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T11:32:53","slug":"lhc-summons-sialkot-dpo-over-missing-journalist-case-family-seeks-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lhc-summons-sialkot-dpo-over-missing-journalist-case-family-seeks-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"LHC summons Sialkot DPO over missing journalist case, family seeks justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lhc-reserves-verdict-scolds-state-counsel-for-lack-of-knowledge-on-internet-disruptions\/\">Lahore High Court<\/a> has issued a summons to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-police-thwarts-terrorist-attack-on-mianwali-check-post\/\">Sialkot District Police Officer (DPO)<\/a> regarding the disappearance of journalist Rana Shahid Mahmood, who went missing on July 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>During a hearing on Tuesday, the court expressed dissatisfaction with the police&#8217;s failure to recover the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lhc-orders-police-to-locate-missing-journalist-rana-shahid-mahmood\/\">missing journalist<\/a>. The petitioner, Fraz Shahid, son of the missing journalist, alleged that his father&#8217;s reporting on drug dealers may have led to his kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fraz, his father is a professional journalist and a social worker. The unknown men shifted his father to some unknown place after kidnapping him.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Tahir Sarwar, the nephew of the kidnapped journalist, had also lodged FIR 1426\/24 with Sambrial police station under Section 365 of<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-navy-to-induct-advance-warships-babar-hunain-on-defense-day\/\"> Pakistan Penal Code<\/a> 1860.<\/p>\n<p>The court had previously directed a deputy superintendent to investigate the case, but no progress has been made.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner submitted CCTV footage, which shows almost 25 unknown individuals reached there on five five pickup trucks (Vigo dalas), a Kia Sportage, and a Honda Civic car, their physical appearance has been described as some wearing police uniforms, kidnapping Rana Shahid Mahmood from a caf\u00e9 in Sambrial at midnight on July 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Despite lodging an FIR, the family has not received any updates on his whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>The court has adjourned the hearing until September 12, expecting the DPO to provide an update on the case.<\/p>\n<p>Rana Shahid Mahmood, chairman of the Sambrial Press Club, was taken away by masked individuals in multiple vehicles, and his family is seeking the court&#8217;s assistance in ensuring his safe recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has issued a summons to the Sialkot District Police Officer (DPO) regarding the disappearance of journalist Rana Shahid Mahmood, who went missing on July 1, 2024. During a hearing on Tuesday, the court expressed dissatisfaction with the police&#8217;s failure to recover the missing journalist. The petitioner, Fraz Shahid, son of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":47235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,21253,21254,21255,21252],"class_list":["post-47231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-lahore-high-court","tag-missing-journalist-case","tag-pakistan-penal-code-1860","tag-sambrial-press-club","tag-sialkot-district-police-officer-dpo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47237,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47231\/revisions\/47237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}