LAHORE: The Lahore High court (LHC) on Wednesday ordered the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) to remove all unauthorized speed breakers and put up streets lights where missing.
LHC Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif passed the order while disposing the suo motu notice against the death of two brothers in Gulshan Ravi. The two brothers had allegedly died after falling off their motorcycle at a speed breaker.
During court proceedings SSP Investigation Zulfiqar Hameed submitted a detailed report on the death of the two brothers, Suleman and Farhan.
The report stated that Javed Iqbal, father of the deceased, had come to terms with the death of his sons and had not submitted either a written complaint or verbal request for further proceedings.
The report further claimed the father had accepted that his son’s were riding their motorcycle rashly. The report further noted that the area where the two brothers had fallen to death was congested and did not require any speed breakers.
The SSP said that two police officers chased the brothers following the SP Iqbal Town’s instructions to check Honda 125s. The police officers shot in the air when the brothers did not stop at their request. This startled the brothers and they fell off their bike.
The SSP admitted that the act of aerial firing was contradictory to legal rules and procedures. A show cause notice has been issued against the officers. The report added that the officers are not criminally liable as they did not act with mala fide intentions.
The report suggested that the municipal authorities should be directed to remove all unauthorized speed breakers so that such incidents may be avoided in the future.
Judge seeks record of dead prisoner
LAHORE: District and Session Judge Suhail Nasir on Wednesday asked the authorities concerned to present in court the record of a prisoner who allegedly died of police torture in Camp Jail.
The judge had taken suo motu notice of Sajid Ali’s death in Camp Jail Lahore on an application filed by his father, Muhammad Zawar, alleging that his son was tortured to death by the police in jail.
Sajid had been nominated in a narcotics case registered by the Anti-Narcotics Force, and during the hearing of Sajid Ali’s case on Wednesday, the court sought for his record. Earlier, Sajid was presented before the Anti Narcotics Court in an injured condition on October 23. Sajid had told the court that he had been tortured in jail. Zawar said that his son died because Camp Jail Superintendent Gulzar Butt did not provide medical treatment.
Zawar filed an application seeking the registration of murder case against jail authorities. The court issued several notices to Butt, seeking report on Sajid’s death, and on Tuesday he finally appeared before the court and stated that he could not provide medical treatment to Sajid because he did not have enough guards to take him to the hospital and clarified that Sajid Ali was not tortured in jail. Staff Report
