No action has been taken by the City District Government Lahore on the blackening of the plaques of three underpasses on Canal Road, which were allegedly smeared with black paint by an organisation named Jaag Punjab Jaag, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The names of three underpasses in Lahore were recently changed by the Dilkash Lahore Committee to pay tribute to people who were a part of the Pakistan Movement.
The boards inscribed with the names of Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, Chaakar-i-Azam Rind, Shah Abdul Latif Bhatai, Liaqat Ali Khan, Waris Shah and Faiz Ahmad Faiz were installed at Doctors Hospital, Jinnah Hospital, Muslim Town, Ferozepur Road, Jail Road and Mall Road underpasses, respectively.
The plaques carrying names of Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, Chaakar-i-Azam Rind and Faiz Ahmad Faiz were spared and only the portions inscribed with names in Urdu were targeted in others.
A legal proceeding can be done under the Defamation Ordinance 2002 as the law states that “Any wrongful act or publication or circulation of a false statement or representation made orally or in written or visual form which injures the reputation of a person, tends to lower him in the estimation of others or tends to reduce him to ridicule, unjust criticism, dislike, contempt or hatred shall be actionable as defamation.”
Names of 26 locations all over the city are to be changed. “Legal action will be taken once we are sure who is behind this,” an official of the CDGL said.