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Expressing displeasure, the judge directed the staff to summon the DSP.
"Verbal statements will not be accepted," he remarked as the court took a short recess.When DSP Legal Naeem Yousaf appeared before the court, the judge expressed severe displeasure over the investigating officer's absence and asked where the case record was.When the DSP began speaking in English, the judge told him to speak in Urdu.
The DSP said that, according to his information, the investigating officer was out of the city along with the record."You should be ashamed," the judge remarked, warning that he could have the DSP stand facing the wall in the courtroom and send him and the SP to jail in uniform for six months if he failed to produce evidence of the investigator's absence from the city.The judge also directed the….
The DSP sought some time to provide the relevant information.
He subsequently produced a WhatsApp printout, claiming that the investigating officer was in Gilgit-Baltistan.The judge refused to accept the WhatsApp copy and threw it back toward the DSP, directing him to produce the original document before the court.He again ordered that handcuffs be brought into the courtroom and directed the security in-charge to remain there, saying that if he ordered the DSP's arrest, the DSP should not be allowed to….
He also instructed the gate security not to let the police officer leave the premises.Addressing Advocate Riasat Ali Azad, the judge said the judiciary should have a "judicial force" capable of ensuring immediate implementation of court orders.
"The same system of 1898 and 1860 is still operating," the judge remarked.Later, the DSP submitted a report to the court, stating that the investigating officer was indeed in Gilgit-Baltistan and that his phone was switched off.
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