The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a police report over slow progress made in investigation of cases of target killing of lawyers in Karachi.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali heard the suo motu case of lawyers’ target killing at the apex court’s Karachi Registry.
Additional Inspector General Police (AIGP) Mushtaq Mehr presented the report which showed that no progress was made in the said cases. The court rejected the report and expressed severe displeasure over it. The chief justice remarked that the court had sought details of all the A-Class cases and not only ones related to lawyers’ killings.
The court said there were hundreds of cases which had been declared A-Class. After the passage of 3 to 4 days after registration of FIR, the cases were put in A-Class category and sent into ‘cold storage’, it observed.
The court ordered the police officials to present a detailed report of all the A-Class cases since 2000 in Karachi and adjourned the hearing for indefinite period.
