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| March 31, 2007 | Saturday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 11, 1428 |
SC gives more time to tribunal probing police excesses
ISLAMABAD, March 30: The Supreme Court on Friday gave 15 more days to a judicial tribunal of the Lahore High Court probing police brutality at lawyers and journalists in Lahore.
The tribunal comprising Justice Zahid Hussain of the LHC was supposed to submit its inquiry report in the Supreme Court on Friday.
However, Punjab’s additional advocate-general Chaudhry Mohammad Hussain requested the apex court to extend one more week to the tribunal for compilation of its report since over 100 more lawyers and journalists had filed affidavit before the judicial tribunal to get record their statements as eyewitnesses to the police torture on protesting lawyers and journalists on professional duty at a rally during a lawyers’ convention in Lahore.
On March 20, Acting Chief Justice Javed Iqbal had appointed Justice Syed Zahid Hussain to conduct an inquiry on the complaint of police torture and excesses against lawyers and journalists during a protest rally in Lahore on March 17 with a direction to the tribunal to fix responsibility on delinquent officers, ascertain its causes and suggest means to avoid such incidents in future.
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