SAHIWAL: Senior Civil Judge Shakeel Ahmed Goraya has submitted the report of the Sahiwal shooting case to the district and sessions judge.
The civil judge as the Judicial Inquiry Officer was tasked with finalising the inquiry into Sahiwal incident in which three members of a family and another person were shot dead allegedly by the Counter Terrorism Department officials.
Sources said the JIO recorded statements of 49 people including eyewitnesses, deceased Khalil’s son Muhammad Ibrahim, the CTD suspects, personnel of the Yousafwala police station, Rescue 1122 and the Bomb Disposal Squad and complainants of both FIRs -- one registered at the CTD, Lahore and the other at the Yousafwala police station, Sahiwal. The JIO submitted the report to the D&SJ who sent it to the Lahore High Court registrar.
The Lahore High Court on complaints of the families of deceased Khalil and Zeeshan ordered on Feb 14 a judicial inquiry into the CTD ‘encounter’ near Qadirabad. The two-member bench said the families of the deceased were not satisfied with the Joint Investigation Team led by Additional IG Ijaz Shah.
SCHEMES: Around 70 development schemes worth Rs600 million will be initiated under the Punjab government’s Community Development Programme among six provincial assembly constituencies of Sahiwal division.
A meeting chaired by Commissioner Arif Anwar Baloch took this decision on Sunday. Installation of water filtration plants, repairing and construction of farm to city roads, and upgradation of sewerage and sanitation systems will be done.
Sources said the development money would be spent only among those six constituencies from where the PTI legislators won seats in the general election.
Each constituency will be given Rs100 million community development scheme. Six filtration plants will be installed at a cost of Rs36.4 million in PP-201 and 202, Chichawatni tehsil where Pir Samsam Shah Bokhari and Nauman Langrial won. A sum of Rs50 million will be spent on seven drainage and sanitary schemes and repairs of Chichawatni intercity roads.
Rs100 million will be spent on the construction of roads in the six constituencies; Rs80 million will be spent in PP-194, Arifwala city from where Naeem Ibrahim of the PTI won.
Three roads will be built from village 67/EB to Airfwala -- Burewala Road, Chak 69/12-L to Kamand and Ansari Chowk to Qabola Road, Arifwala city.
The commissioner directed the DCs of Pakpattan, Okara and Sahiwal to personally review these schemes so that the citizens can get maximum benefit of the development money.
Published in Dawn, March 18th, 2019
