LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Thursday summoned complete record of the proceedings pending before the Lahore High Court against Lahore Saddar Superintendent of Police (operations) Sardar Hafeezur Rehman Bugti for misstating facts in a matter relating to police occupation of a citizen’s property.
A two-judge bench comprising Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah was hearing a petition of Bugti at the Supreme Court’s Lahore registry. The police officer challenged the show cause notice issued by the LHC Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan.
A counsel for the officer told the bench that the petitioner did not make any misstatement before the LHC. He said the LHC had been misled through wrong facts against the police officer.
July 2, 2021
LAHORE: The Supreme Court (SC) Thursday summoned record of the proceedings pending before the Lahore High Court (LHC) against SP Operations Sadar Sardar Hafeezur Rehman Bugti for giving a wrong statement in a matter relating to police occupation of a citizen’s property.
A two-judge bench comprising Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah was hearing a petition of Bugti at the Lahore registry. The police officer challenged the show-cause notice issued by LHC Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan.
A counsel for the officer told the bench that the petitioner did not make any wrong statement before the LHC. He said the LHC had been misled through wrong facts against the police officer. He asked the bench to set aside the proceedings against the SP before the LHC.
National
May 26, 2021
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday declared the federal government’s policy of holding auction of toshakhana articles for a selected category of people as illegal. Allowing a petition against the government’s decision to sell toshakhana articles through auction to officers of the federal government and armed forces only, Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan directed the government to introduce a legislation to make the auction transparent and fair.
Advocate Adnan Paracha had filed the petition, saying the policy to allow the officers of the federal government and armed forces to only participate in the auction was sheer discriminatory and unlawful. He asked the court to set aside the impugned process and order the government to also allow common citizens to also participate in the auction. In an interim order passed on Nov 17, 2020, the chief justice had suspended a notification issued by the cabinet division, which states: “It has been decided to d