Notices ordered: Ban on pillion riding challenged in SHC

The beneficiaries as always would be the transport mafia and traffic police which are in league.


Our Correspondent April 19, 2012

KARACHI:


A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Tuesday ordered the issuance of notices for May 11 to Sindh’s Chief Secretary, secretaries home and law departments besides Sindh police chief on an application filed against a fresh ban on pillion riding.

The bench, comprising Justices Faisal Arab and Nadeem Akhtar, earlier heard Rana Faizul Hasan of United Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, an NGO, who argued his own case before the bench. He submitted that three million people of Karachi would suffer the most, both in terms of fares and time, as they have to travel now in buses or other private transport vehicles to reach their places of work from their home and vice versa.

The beneficiaries as always would be the transport mafia and traffic police which are in league.

The city police are responsible for maintaining law and order and for nabbing the terrorists, he argued adding that the failure of police was always buried under different pretexts and ban on pillion riding was considered to be a single but most effective method to control crime and incidents of terrorism.

However, police have always proved wrong and crime rate speaks itself that ban on pillion riding has no connection with the killings in Karachi, he said praying to the court to declare the ban on pillion riding as illegal and in violation of fundamental rights.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2012.


 

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