While hearing a petition regarding the alleged abduction of a Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Joint Director Sajid Gondal, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on September 21, directed Adviser to Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Shahzad Akbar to prepare and place before the Premier a report on the “poor standard” of the capital police’s investigation process in two weeks reports Pakistan Today. The directive was given during the hearing of a habeas corpus petition filed on September 5, a day after Gondal was allegedly picked up from Islamabad. The petitioner, Gondal’s mother, had expressed apprehensions that her son may be “put to mental and physical torture as his whereabouts are unknown and his life is also in danger”. Gondal, however, returned safely on September 8. During September 21 hearing, IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah, who had expressed concern about the purportedly enforced disappearances in the capital, also directed Akbar to submit a detailed report on the matter within three weeks.