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| August 05, 2006 | Saturday | Rajab 9, 1427 |
MPA Rana Tajammul disqualified
LAHORE, Aug 4: An election tribunal comprising Justice Mian Hamid Farooq of the Lahore High Court on Friday disqualified PML-N MPA Rana Tajammul Husain and ordered fresh elections on the seat.
An election petition was filed by Rana Shaukat Mahmood of the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarian and Malik Javed Awan for disqualification of Tajammul Husain from PP-157.
The court disqualified Rana Tajammul as the proposer and the seconder of his nomination papers didn’t belong to the same constituency.
Meanwhile, the court directed the Election Commission to hold fresh polling in PP-157.
NOTICE TO IG: The LHC has issued a notice to the Punjab inspector-general of police and other respondents in various identical petitions of Punjab police officials against their repatriation from the Punjab Highway Patrolling.
Petitions filed by Azam and 62 others, including head-constables, assistant sub-inspectors and sub-inspectors, through their counsel, submitted that they were transferred to the Highway Patrolling for three years but before completion of their tenure, they were repatriated.
They informed the court that they were deputed as ‘muharrar’ in the Punjab Highway Patrolling, but the government, after their repatriation, recruited new staff and constables on these posts. They submitted that a constable could not be deputed at the post of ‘muharrar’ under the law and only head-constables could be deputed at this post.
DIRECTIVE: The LHC directed the Lahore SSP (operations) to ensure the production of 23 detenus before the court on Aug 7.
The court passed the order on a petition filed by Sakina Bibi of Karim Park, Ravi Road, Lahore.
The petitioner submitted that her relative, Mubeen Butt, had murdered a security guard and later become an absconder. She submitted the police failed to arrest him.
She alleged the police on Aug 2 raided their houses and abducted 23 relatives of Mubeen. They also took away cash, jewellery and other household articles. She informed the court that she approached the highups for their release, but in vain.
She said the detainees were in a private cell of Shafiqabad and Ravi Road SHOs.
STAYED: The high court suspended implementation of an order to shift a girls school, and restrained the respondent from doing so to a premises some 20km away from the present site.
The petition filed by Mohammad Ahmad submitted that the City District Government Lahore had ordered shifting of the Government Community Girls School, Mozang, to another institution situated at Makhdoomabad.
It was contended that it was not viable for the students to go to the new school, and that they would have to face problems in getting education.
He prayed the court to set aside the shifting order and restrain the respondent from taking further measures in this regard. —APP
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