LAHORE, June 30: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan chairperson Asma Jahangir on Thursday stated that she would consider pardoning the Ghalib Market police if they tendered her a written apology. She was replying to a question by additional sessions judge Mian Khadim Husain, functioning as ex-officio justice of peace.

She said she would give due consideration to the suggestion if the police apologised in black and white the maltreatment they meted out to a rally participants near the Liberty crossing.

The HRCP chairperson said the police dragged men and women on the road and tore their clothes. She too was subjected to this treatment.

The judge later summoned a section officer of the Punjab home department to produce on July 8 the notification which banned the holding of rallies on the Main Boulevard of Gulberg on May 14 under Section 144 CrPC.