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KARACHI, Sept 11: The Sindh High Court asked the city district government to submit the report of inquiry held into deaths of two children when the car they were traveling in fell into an open drain.
The children’s mother, Shehla Raza, secretary-general of the Karachi PPP women wing, has filed a suit for damages amounting to Rs 25 million against the city district government and the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board. She said she was going from Gulshan-i-Iqbal to Sohrab Goth on Nov 6, 2005, when her car skidded off into a drain on Ispahani Road.
The driver could not ascertain the location due to a mound of mud and darkness. The drain was unfenced and unguarded and his children, Aks-i-Batool, 13, and Shayan, 10, were killed while she received injuries. She held the city district government and the KWSB responsible for her children’s death.
The suit was fixed for hearing on Monday and her counsel, Nasir Maqsood, moved an application for production of the report of inquiry ordered into the incident by the CDG. Allowing the application, Justice Faisal Arab asked the CDG to submit the report within two weeks and adjourned further hearing to Oct 2.
GOLD SMUGGLING: The High Court of Sindh Monday allowed pre-arrest interim bail to three accused for having links with Mohammad Haroon Gaba, an alleged smuggler of gold.
The pre-arrest bail plea was submitted before the single bench of SHC, comprising Justice, Muhammad Mujeeb Ullah Siddiqi.
The applicants, Mohammad Arif alias Minjra, Yaseen alias Sukkur and Muhammad Saleem alias Dumbas, submitted that there was not an iota of evidence against them and they were not nominated in the FIR.
It was further submitted that investigation and prosecution cell of the Preventive Collectorate of Customs was looking for the applicants to investigate them in the gold smuggling matter.
Mohammad Haroon Gaba was arrested at Karachi Airport on July 24 for smuggling gold into Pakistan from Dubai. 80 gold slabs of 10 tolas each along with 4995 grams of assorted jewellery was seized from him. Two banks drafts of Rs 300,000 and Rs 600,880 were also recovered from Haroon.—APP
Notice to DAG:The High Court of Sindh issued notice to deputy attorney general for the date to be fixed in office in a case against some immigrants booked by FIA for entering Pakistan on fake/forged documents.
The bail plea was filed before Justice Ghulam Rabbani.
The accused/applicants Kim Hwa Yeon and Young Chenog Ok, presently confined at Central Jail Karachi, in a case registered at F.I.A Passport Cell.
