In response to the kidnapping of South Waziristan district sessions judge Shakirullah Marwat by unidentified armed individuals, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) filed a first-information report (FIR) on Sunday.
One day prior, armed individuals abducted the district and sessions judge in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, close to the border between Tank and DI Khan.
The judge’s driver, Sher Ali, filed a complaint at the CTD police station in DI Khan. Along with other clauses, the FIR included pertinent sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
It is important to note that the judge and the mysterious armed men fled together, with the judge’s driver escaping unscathed.
The driver reported in his police report that they were traveling along the Tank-DI Khan route when the judge’s official car was stopped by a group of 25 to 50 armed individuals in the Garah Mohabaat Mor portion of the road.
“The accused fired upon the vehicle after it had stopped.” The driver and the judge exited the car in the interim.
After tying a piece of cloth over the driver’s eyes, the suspects fled the scene. According to the FIR, the gunmen requested the judge, who was wearing a trouser shirt, to put on a shalwar kameez, which was given to him by the kidnappers, during a brief stopover of the car after a forty-minute journey through the bush.
