FAISALABAD, June 15: The Punjab government has formally decided to set up a bench of the Lahore High Court in Faisalabad with jurisdiction to adjudicate cases related to the districts of Faisalabad, Toba Tek Singh and Jhang.
Sources said the bench was likely to start functioning from July 1 after a notification by the LHC chief justice by the third week of the current month. They said that four rooms currently in the use of additional district and sessions judges were being vacated to house the bench.
WATER TREATMENT: Provincial Minister for Environment Makhdoom Ashfaq Ahmed says industrial waste treatment plants would be installed in four major districts of the province by spending over Rs2 billion within next two years.
Speaking to the people of Mamukanjan on Tuesday, he said that the Tehsil Municipal Administration of Tandlianwala had been asked to prepare a comprehensive plan for providing sweet water to people of Mamukanjan town.
He further said that the Health Department officials had also been asked to set up emergency camps in Mamukanjan and provide medical facilities to the people who had developed different diseases due to the use of polluted water.
MPA Shahid Khalil Noor told the minister that the people of Mamukanjan had been agitating for the last so many years against the disposal of industrial waste in local Sem Nullah by the industrial units of Faisalabad.
BOOKED: Saddar police have registered a case against owner of the house where five people lost their lives due to fireworks blast on Sunday night. The police registered the case on the report of Muhammad Sadique against Muhammad Arshad under section 286 and 322 PPC. The accused was however at large.
Police claimed that Arshad had illegally stored fireworks in his house, which caught fire with a bang resulting in the death of five people, including three children, in Chak 225-RB.
Dear visitor, the comments section is undergoing an overhaul and will return soon.