Supreme Court grants bail to Yar Muhammad Rind

The Supreme Court on Monday accepted interim bail of former Federal Minister Sardar Muhammad Rind in a kidnapping for ransom case.

A three-member bench of the SC headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary heard the appeal filed by opposition leader in the Balochistan Assembly, Yar Muhammad Rind and granted the bail against the security bonds of worth Rs 500,000.

The bench also instructed to release Rind from the Secretariat police station if he is not involved in any other case. The chief justice remarked that sentencing any accused in absentia should be discouraged as it was done in National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) case.

Earlier, the prosecutor told the court that Rind is also facing murder charges while he was also punished in those cases. Later, the court adjourned the hearing till November 19.

Leader of the Opposition in the Balochistan Assembly Yar Muhammad Rind was arrested on Thursday on the orders of the Supreme Court as he came out of the courtroom.

It may be noted here that the trial court and Balochistan High Court (BHC) had awarded life imprisonment to Yar Muhammad Rind in a murder case.

He had not been appearing in the provincial courts for many years. However, he had filed a petition in the apex court against his imprisonment order. The chief justice ordered the arrest of Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind as per the requirements of law.

Counsel for Rind, advocate Akram Shaikh pleaded the court to take his client to Sindh House. The chief justice ordered to place him in the Secretariat police station as the law is equal for everyone and he should be presented again on Monday.

Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind took the plea that he was convicted over non-appearance in the courts.

He submitted that he could not appear before the courts as the Chief Minister of the province Aslam Raisani was after his blood due to an old enmity between the Raisani and Rind tribes.

He said that so far 200 people had been killed due to this hostility between the two tribes. He said that was the reason he was unable to go to Balochistan.

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