A hardened criminal and absconder Pervez alias Peja escaped from the custody of a Lahore High Court bailiff here Monday when bailiff was taking him to the court on foot from police station Old Anarkali.The absconder, was to be produced before the court of Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi in connection with a habeas corpus petition filed by his father.
According to the petitioner, Lundianwala police of Faisalabad had kept his son in illegal detention. And the court had deputed a bailiff, Aleem Khan, to recover the alleged detainee from the custody of police. The bailiff had raided the police station in Faisalabad before Eid holidays and recovered the detainee. The detainee was handed over to Old Anarkali police in Lahore for his production before LHC on Monday.
However, when the bailiff Aleem Khan was taking the criminal on foot alone to the High Court, he managed to flee. Justice Naqvi ordered Old Anarkali police to register a case on the complaint of the bailiff and arrest the criminal to produce him before the court within a week.Faisalabad police was also ordered to apprehend the absconded criminal and produce him before the court.