The maid not recovered

A two-member bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of Sobia recovery case till April 11.
The bench headed by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja was hearing the matter at the SC’s Lahore registry. SP (Investigation) Model Town Ijaz Shafi Dogar along DSP and SHO appeared before the court and said efforts were being made to recover the maid while three people had been arrested and mobile phone data had been recovered. Muhammad Ishaq of Nankana Sahib filed the petition and submitted that his daughter, Sobia, was a maid at the house of Attique in Shadman, Lahore. He said two years ago, he asked Attique to let his daughter go with him because he had arranged her marriage, but he refused. Later, he came to know that his daughter had been kidnapped by some unknown persons.
ECP ISSUED NOTICE: The LHC issued notice to Election Commission of Pakistan for April 10 on a petition challenging by-election schedule for PP-245 and PP-243 of the provincial assembly.
Justice Umar Ata Bandial issued notice on a petition filed by the petitioner-counsel Shahid Pervez Jami. Earlier, the petitioner-counsel submitted that the ECP had announced to hold by-elections in PP-245 and PP-243 of DG Khan on May 7 and said this step was against the law.
IGP’S PLEA DISMISSED: LHC CJ Sh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday dismissed a plea by Inspector general of Police (IGP) Punjab against stay order on DSPs promotions. The IGP through a petition submitted that the services tribunal had issued a stay order against promotions of DSPs in Punjab Police which stopped the promotion process. He pleaded the court to vacate the stay granted by the services tribunal.
Hearing the petition, the CJ expressed annoyance on Punjab governments’s counsel and observed that the court time was being wasted as the matter could be solved at services tribunal level.