National
March 12, 2021
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan on Thursday observed that prima facie the premature transfer of former police chief of Punjab Shoaib Dastagir and posting of the incumbent were in violation of the law.
He was hearing multiple petitions challenging the premature transfers of the inspector general of police of Punjab and capital city police officer of Lahore made last year. PML-N MPA Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan and others had filed the petitions pleading that the removal of former police chief Dastagir and former CCPO Zulfiqar Hameed were illegal and in violation of Police Order, 2002.
LAHORE: The Punjab government removed Capital City Police Officer Lahore Umar Sheikh from his post on Friday.Ghulam Mehmood Dogar has been appointed as new CCPO Lahore and a notification to this.