Overseas Pakistanis Cell receives 2,000 irrelevant cases
Scrutiny carried out in light of LHC judgment
LAHORE:
A cell set up by Lahore High Court to address complaints of overseas Pakistanis has received more than 2,000 cases that do not fall under the category.
Sources told The Express Tribune that the Overseas Pakistanis Cell of LHC recently detected the wrongly referred complaints during a scrutiny of over 4,000 pending cases across Punjab.
The scrutiny was carried out in light of a judgment of Justice Jawad Hassan.
The more than 2,000 cases that do not fall under the overseas category were referred to the courts dealing with routine proceedings. The petitioners had reportedly pretended to be overseas Pakistanis had filing their cases, although they did not fall in the category.