KARACHI, Dec 17: The Sindh High Court upheld on Friday an order passed by a judicial magistrate in connection with a newspaper closed down in June.

The magistrate had allowed an application by the chief editor of Indus to register a first information report against the daily’s publisher for ‘having unlawfully occupied and locked the newspaper premises’ in Karachi.

About 50 employees of the paper were rendered jobless, the complainant said.

The publisher moved an application against the magistrate’s order. Justice Yasmin Abbasey dismissed the application after the two parties. Advocate Fiaz H. Shah appeared for the respondent chief editor, Dastagir Bhatti.—Staff Reporter