LAHORE, Oct 18: The Lahore District Council on Saturday adopted a resolution for judicial inquiry into the incident involving a high-ranking military officer’s car with tinted glass, which was stopped by the Gulberg police the other day.

Moving the resolution, Naib Nazim Farooq Amjad Mir said the constable who had stopped the car was working for the City District Government. He said that the house appreciated the gesture of Model Town SP, Gulberg ASP and the Gulberg SHO, who had been penalized for supporting the constable.

He hoped that the institutions involved in the incident would review their conduct dispassionately and vindicate the constable in case he had acted in accordance with the law.

He said that the house would support the constable in case the inquiry proved that he had not committed any mistake by stopping the military officer’s car. The house would provide him legal as well as financial aid in case he was dismissed despite being proven not guilty. He said that the constable would be invited to the house and honoured after his reinstatement.

Malik Usman, the only councillor who opposed the resolution, said that police checkpoints had become a form of collective punishment for Lahorites. He said that the house should also consider the continuing humiliation of citizens at police checkpoints while appreciating the effort of the policeman who enforced the law.

He said the police had failed to trace those who murdered eight people in the Allama Iqbal Town recently, but they were keen to punish all Lahorites for the murder of an MNA in Islamabad.

Reading a report submitted by Solid Waste Management District Officer Muhammad Rafiq Jatoi earlier, the district Naib Nazim said that a total 108 waste containers had been provided to five rural union councils in Shalimar Town, four in Nishtar Town, nine in Allama Iqbal Town and six in Aziz Bhatti Town. Only two union councils had not been provided containers so far. The SWM required 180 containers for all the 26 union councils and would provide one tractor for hauling every six.

He said that union councils would be handed over the tractors only in case the Nazims undertook the responsibility for diesel and maintenance and were willing to face the consequences in the event of their misuse. He said that drivers would report to UC Nazims every morning and return the tractor to a pool in the afternoon after disposal of garbage. Ten sanitary workers were being deputed at every rural union council.

He asked the councillors to submit their questions to the executive district officer for works by Nov 1, who would answer the questions during the next session of the council.