GUJRANWALA, Oct 11: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday allowed the district attorney to file the chargesheet of Sialkot jail tragedy by Oct 22, and ordered the investigators to remove as many as 45 objections that the attorney had raised to their report.
The court had earlier fixed Oct 11 as the deadline for submission of the report, but District Attorney Binyamin Liaqat appeared in the court on Saturday and requested more time in view of the objections.
The complainant, Faisalabad civil judge Muhammad Yousaf, was also present in the courtroom besides the other complainants, Sialkot Bar president Munawar Hussain Warraich, secretary-general Shamshad Hussain and Azher Chaudhry.
A legal expert pointed out on the condition of anonymity that the investigating team had not entered the names of DIG prisons, Sialkot district coordination officer and other officers on the list of witnesses.
The police could not recover the arms used in the Sialkot jail tragedy.
The investigating team had accused former SHO Zulfikar Ali Virk of murder on the one hand and shown him a witness on the other.
The Elite Force officials who took part in the operation were not included among witnesses. The district attorney had dismissed the note of AIG (legal) in the report and declared it unlawful. There was no plea of any police officer for post mortem of the deceased judges. No witness was recorded against the Sialkot jail officials.
The judge ordered that members of the investigating team should remain in Sialkot till the removal of objections to their report.
PROBE: DIG Altaf Qamar on Saturday ordered a probe into the detention of a Saukinwind union council Nazim, Narowal.
Nazim Salman Dogar had lodged a complaint with the DIG that he had wrongly been implicated in a kidnap for ransom case.
He further requested that an impartial inquiry should be ordered as he had been languishing in jail for the last one year.
REVAMPED: The procedure of domicile certificate was revamped by the district government to facilitate seekers here on Saturday.
The district coordination officer said now the domicile certificate could be verified by the area revenue patwari, the tehsildar and the union council Nazim concerned. While the qanoongo and the DDO were stripped of this facility.
However, the DCO said that seekers would have to appear before the officer incharge at the time of issuance of the domicile certificate.
