KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday adjourned the hearing of a petition filed by Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi seeking to make public Joint Investigation Team (JIT) reports of the Baldia factory inferno, Lyari gangster Uzair Baloch and Fishermen’s Cooperative Society former chairman Nisar Morai.
A two-member bench of the SHC adjourned the hearing until April 22 due to the absence of the petitioner’s lawyer.
In the previous hearing, the SHC had ruled that it will make public the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) reports public after carefully reviewing them. The sealed JIT reports have already been submitted to the bench in pursuance of its orders.
Federal Minister Ali Zaidi had filed a petition in SHC requesting orders to the law enforcement agencies to make public JIT reports of Uzair Baloch, Morai and the Baldia blaze case.
In his petition, Zaidi had contended that more than 250 people lost their lives in the Baldia incident but the JIT report had not been made public until now. The JIT reports of Uzair Baloch and Morai have also not been made publicly available.
The minister had claimed that Morai had confessed before the JIT about involvement of senior politicians in the murder of seven people.
He said it is the right of citizens to know about investigations into crimes.
