The Supreme Court on Tuesday disposed of a suo motu notice against a car racing accident, which killed five people in Bahria Town, and ordered a trial court to decide the case in a transparent manner.
During the hearing, Punjab Additional Advocate General Muhammad Hanif Khattana presented a report before a three-member Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry stating that the accused individuals were being tried in subordinate courts.
The chief justice took the suo motu notice when a private TV channel aired a video, which showed a racing driver losing control over his vehicle and hitting spectators. Five people were killed in the accident which took place on December 9 last year. The driver had run away from the spot. Khattana said that an additional session’s judge in Rawalpindi had converted Section-302 into Section-322, while declaring the event “an incident”. Hamid Khan, lawyer for Bahria Town owner Malik Riaz, informed the bench that the legal heirs of the five victims had pardoned his client after being compensated. An 11-year-old child, Asfand Yar, and his father were also among the victims. Coincidently, just two days before his death, the child wrote an essay on “The Accident” in his English exam. The road accident he depicted in his essay sadly transformed into reality.
