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KARACHI, May 5: The Sindh High Court ordered on Monday attachment of a water tanker that killed a student.
Asif Raza, aged 18, was run over by the recklessly-driven tanker on Stadium Road, Karachi, on September 3, 2002. His parents filed a suit for damages amounting to Rs4.98 million against the owner and the driver of the tanker in the Sindh High Court through Advocate Nasir Maqsood. They also moved the court for seizure of the vehicle (QA 4445) as, having been registered at Quetta, it might easily be removed from the SHC’s territorial jurisdiction. It might also be sold or hired out or otherwise be subjected to third-party interest to defeat any decree in favour of the plaintiffs.
Allowing the application, Justice Gulzar Ahmed also restrained the excise and taxation officer of the motor registration wing at Quetta from executing any transfer of the attached vehicle, which would remain impounded at Aziz Bhatti Shaheed police station till further orders.
NAI ROSHNI SCHOOLS: The Sindh High Court asked the provincial education secretary on Monday to appear on May 12 to help it ascertain the status of about 300 teachers of the defunct Nai Roshni schools.
A division bench, comprising Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Rehmat Hussain Jaferi, passed the order on a writ petition moved by the teachers. They said they were recruited to teach at Nai Roshni schools set up under a mass literacy and education programme. The programme was terminated midway and they were transferred to primary schools.
The petitioners have impleaded the federal education ministry and the provincial education department, besides the establishment division and the provincial chief secretary. The bench decided on Monday to hear the provincial education secretary on the status of the teachers recruited for the mass literacy and adult education programme.
REJECTED: Justice Muhammad Sadiq Leghari of the Sindh High Court dismissed the bail plea of three activists of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement in an attempt to murder case, adds PPI.
According to the prosecution, complainant MPA Talib Imam of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement lodged an FIR at Korangi police station on November 22, 2002 that unidentified men riding two motorcycles came at the Muttahida office in Korangi and opened fire on party workers sitting outside. Four men, Abdul Sattar, Shahid, Fahad and Shariq, were injured.
After hearing arguments from both sides, the judge observed that in the presence of ocular evidence, it was not a case of bail. So their bail plea was dismissed.
