Non-compliance: CCPO ordered to act against SHO

LAHORE: An additional district and sessions directed the CCPO’s office on Monday to ensure implementation of a court order and take action against an SHO for not submitting comments on a petition seeking registration of a case against the people threatening to kill the petitioner. Petitioner Bilal Munawar had said that some individuals had threatened to kill him after learning that he was reading Ahmadiyya texts.  Munawar said he was a faithful, law abiding and learned citizen. The petitioner said that he hailed from a moderate Muslim family. He said his elders had pledged allegiance to Jamaat-i-Ahmadiyya (JA) before converting to Islam in 1974. He said he had approached the relevant SHO and the CCPO’s office in vain to have an FIR registered against the unidentified individuals. He had requested the court to direct police to provide him security, probe the matter and register an FIR against those who had threatened to kill him. The court had ordered the SHO to address the petitioner’s grievances. The petitioner said that when he had taken the court order to the SHO, he had not registered an FIR against the suspects.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 26^th,  2016.