LHC orders Punjab govt to contention Model Town killings exploration report
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The Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered a Punjab supervision on Monday to contention a legal exploration news into the 2014 Model Town occurrence that left 14 Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) workers dead.
A full-member dais of a LHC headed by Justice Abid Aziz Sheikh was conference a government’s petition against creation a news public, Express News reported.
The government’s counsel, Khawaja Harris, contended that a exploration news was not partial of legal annals and could not be used a evidence.
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In September, Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of a LHC systematic a supervision to make a news public.
The supervision warn argued that as a matter was being listened by a full dais of a high court, a outcome by a singular dais of a justice should be set aside.
Fourteen workers of a Pakistan Awami Tehreek were killed in 2014 during an ‘anti-encroachment’ operation nearby Dr Tahirul Qadri’s home in Model Town.
In a issue of a incident, a legal judiciary headed by LHC’s Justice Ali Baqar Najafi was constituted for anticipating out contribution and regulating shortcoming on a perpetrators.
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The elect finished a exploration and submitted a news to a Punjab supervision on Aug 9, 2014. However, a supervision refused to make it open .
The victims afterwards petitioned a high justice by Barrister Syed Ali Zafar, who argued that releasing a exploration news was clearly a matter of open interest, and a supervision was firm underneath a law to give a compulsory information to a ubiquitous public.
Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of a LHC celebrated in his Sep settlement that as a news was the outcome of legal proceedings, it was a open document.
However, the Punjab supervision motionless to plea a verdict and filed an intra-court interest before a LHC.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1551328/1-lhc-orders-punjab-govt-submit-model-town-killings-inquiry-report/