Apex court orders reconstruction of Hindu temple
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Evacuee Property Trust Board (EPTB) to start reconstruction of the Hindu temple that was damaged by a mob in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) last week and suggested the money for repairs be footed by the perpetrators.
A three-member bench of the apex court comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan and Justice Munib Akhtar heard a suo motu case regarding the burning of the temple in Karak, during which the court gave a number of directives to the ETPB, a federal body founded in 1960 to look after the “Evacuee Trust Properties / Land left over by the Sikh/Hindus who migrated to India during partition in 1947-48”, according to its official website.