LAHORE – The Lahore High Court (LHC) issued warning on Thursday to all presiding officers of accountability courts in Punjab over poor performance. The court warned Ali Hassan Rizvi, Ahmad Nawaz Ranjha, Mian Subah Sadiq Wattoo, Falak Sher Farooqa, Mian Muhammad Younas, Muhammad Tariq Abbasi, Wamiq Javaid , Syed Najam-ul-Hassan Najam and Abdul Haque. Earlier, the chief Justice expressed his displeasure over the judges’ explanations to the court. CJLHC Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry had expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of accountability judges and sought an explanation from them.
The judges’ reply was found unsatisfactory by the CJLHC. The court asked the presiding officers to get their act together to end the backlog of cases.
– sets couple free from landlord’s custody: The Lahore High Court on Thursday set free a couple and their two children after securing their release from a landlord’s custody in Depalpur A court bailiff raided Haji Shaukat’s house and recovered Muhammad Mansha, Ghulam Fatima and their children Zakia and Altaf and produced them before the court. They told the court that they had been in the landlord’s custody for the last three years and were being subjected to forced labour.
-grants bail to lawyer: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Thursday suspended the sentence of a lawyer in a narcotics case and allowed him interim bail until March 18. The lawyer, Ayaz Safdar, was arrested at Allama Iqbal International Airport after being found in possession of 420 grams of heroin. The lawyer was sentenced to eleven months in prison and fined Rs30,000 fine by an anti narcotics court on March 4, 2011. The bench headed by Justice Sheikh Najamul Hassan suspended the sentence and allowed interim bail to the accused-lawyer. The bench also summoned the case record at the next hearing date.
