ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Monday summoned the municipal committee members of Hujra Shah Muqeem, a municipality in Okara on March 29, from where a picture circulated on social media that showed a funeral procession passing through sewage.
Hearing the suo motu case on Monday, a three-member bench led by the CJP heard the town’s councillor, who said the exact location of the picture has been identified and that he was a part of the funeral procession.
The CJP regretted that the clothes of those passing through sewage would have been ruined and wondered how they would have offered funeral prayers in dirty clothes.
The counsellor informed the apex court of several other municipal issues of the town, after which the chief justice summoned the entire municipal committee and its chairman, who hails from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, on March 29.
Earlier on March 20, CJP took suo motu notice of the picture which showed a funeral procession passing through a street overflowing with sewage. Four men were seen carrying the body while others walk sideways to avoid stepping into the sewage.
During the hearing of the case, the CJP directed the attention of the attorney general and advocate general towards the photo.
“We will take the Member National Assembly (MNA), councillor and other officials of whatever area is depicted in the photo to task [over the unsanitary conditions],” Justice Nisar had said.
