LAHORE, Oct 15: The Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice has taken suo motu notice of absence of proper equipment with the bomb disposal squad and recruitment of its officials on daily wages.

The chief justice allowed further proceedings in the case on the report of a learned judge of the LHC who informed him that the bomb disposal squad had visited the high court to conduct a search operation in his chambers following information regarding a likely suicide attack.

The judge said he was flabbergasted to know that the squad consisted of three or four persons who were employed on daily wages and were poorly equipped. The judge directed the LHC registrar to treat the information as a complaint and place it before the chief justice for suo motu action.

Meanwhile, the LHC directed the Punjab inspector general of police and operations SSP to direct their subordinates to refrain from harassing journalist Kashif Latif and his family.

The petitioner submitted that Shahid and Majid Tariq Bhatti had opened fire on him outside the Lahore Press Club after he had divorced their sister.

The police were not arresting them despite the cancellation of their interim bail and they were harassing him and his family members.

FIR: The Lahore High Court has observed that mere heinouness of a crime did not necessarily mean that a person name in the FIR was involved in it when no specific role was attributed to him.