LAHORE, Oct 11: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday allowed the Punjab home secretary another two days to submit his report on the meeting between Indian spy Manjeet Singh alias Sarbjeet Singh and his counsel Rana Abdul Hameed.

A senior officer of the home department requested the court to defer the hearing of petition of Manjeet’s counsel seeking a Punjab government permission to meet his client at the Kot Lakhpat Jail for consultation on three review petitions moved by the convict in the Supreme Court.

The counsel submitted that the home secretary had not responded to his two applications sent on Sept 2 and 19 through which he had sought a meeting which was his professional right.

The Indian filed with the Lahore registry of the Supreme Court the review petitions submitting that the apex court did not meet certain legal requirements in upholding the decision of the Lahore High Court for confirming his death sentence.

Sarbjeet Singh was found by a anti-terrorist court involved in four cases of bomb explosions. The Supreme Court dismissed the first review petition in one of the cases and he filed the remaining three in a similar number of cases.

SCBA secretary: Advocate Ali Akbar Qureshi has been declared elected unopposed the secretary to the Supreme Court Bar Association.

He was returned to the SCBA office after his rival, Syed Zulfiqar Ali Bokhari, withdrew his candidature on Monday. Mr Qureshi belongs to the lawyers’ professional group headed by Advocate Hamid Khan.

About 1,600 senior lawyers will vote on Oct 22 to elect other SCBA office-bearers, including the office of the president which has gone to Punjab this year.

Two former judges of the Lahore High Court, Malik Saeed Hasan and Malik Mohammad Qayyum, are involved in a straight contest for the coveted office.