LAHORE, Sept 21: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday summoned for Sept 27 a panel of police officers headed by DIG Tariq Saleem Dogar, who investigated the Sialkot jail firing incident.

Comprising Justice Sheikh Abdur Rashid and Justice Mohammad Bilal Khan, the division bench is proceeding on a writ petition for transfer of the case from an anti-terrorist court of Gujranwala to the LHC.

Civil judges Asif Mumtaz Cheema, Syed Shehryar Bokhari, Shahid Munir Ranjha and Sagheer Anwar were killed in the firing incident inside the Sialkot jail on July 25 last year.

Petitioner Syed Ghulam Abbas Bokhari submitted to the court that the petition did not include a request for summoning the investigation team. He however submitted that the case had assumed importance because the whole state machinery and political bigwigs in the Punjab government seemed involved in the proceedings, as evident by the fact that the final charge sheet of the case had not yet been submitted to the trial court.

The police investigation team summoned by the court also includes DPO (Kasur) Ghulam Mohammad Kulyar, SSP Nisar Saroya, DSP Yunus Butt and SHO (Civil Lines Sialkot) Sanaullah.

Meanwhile, Chief Justice Iftikhar Husain Chaudhry has constituted another division bench to proceed on the plea for cancellation of the bail of DIG Malik Mohammad Iqbal, two doctors of the Allama Iqbal Memorial Hospital and 12 personnel of the Elite Force involved in the firing incident.

The division bench has been constituted after one member of the division bench declined to hear the petition for personal reasons. The new division bench comprises Justice Khawaja Mohammad Sharif and Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar Husain.