Daily Times

KARACHI: The son of the chief justice of the Sindh High Court (SHC) strangely got missing outside a super store on Monday.

Advocate Ovais Ali Shah, the son of Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, was last seen at Agha’s Super Market in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) around noon, according to DIG South Munir Sheikh.

Advocate Ovais’s mobile phone has been powered off since. DIG Sheikh said police were reported about the incident around 9:15pm and an investigation was filed immediately.

The CCTV footage showed Advocate Ovais shopping in the super store. A team of police forensic experts got hold of the fingerprints from Advocate Ovais’s car parked outside the super store.

A TV channel quoted eyewitnesses as saying that when Advocate Ovais left the super store, four masked gunmen got down from a white car bearing police registration number and stopped him. Initially, Advocate Ovais resisted, but then they caught him and put him in their car.

Following the incident, police started snap checking in the city as well as at all its entry and exit points.

Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad has taken the notice of the incident. They have instructed the law enforcement agencies to use all available resources to recover Advocate Ovais.

Moreover, Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal also directed IGP Allah Dino Khowaja to find Advocate Ovais as soon as possible. Meantime, the IGP visited the SHC chief justice’s residence and provided him information about initial investigation.

Advocate Ovais, a lawyer of the SHC, is a member of the Sindh Bar Council and the Sindh High Court Bar Association. A lawyer of original side, Advocate Ovais was currently handling around 90 cases in the SHC