21 October 2004	Thursday	06 Ramazan 1425

ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui on Wednesday asked the Lahore High Court chief justice to take cognizance of an application seeking action against police officials involved in stripping and then parading a girl in public in Bahawalnagar.

Zulfikar Bhutta advocate had invited the attention of the chief justice of Pakistan pleading to take a suo moto notice of police accesses.

In his application, the mover had also annexed a news report in which it was stated that some police officials at Madni Colony Faqir Wali Bahawalnagar district forced a girl to strip her clothes and then parade before the public.

After humiliating the girl, the police also registered a "false" case under Hudood ordinance against the girl, who is a daughter of a blind person.