Teacher torture: Madhyana plea for case transfer deferred

Medical board concluded that teacher’s injuries were not a result of gunshots, as he had claimed, but of blunt force.

LAHORE:

A Lahore High Court division bench deferred the hearing of a petition filed by former PPP MPA Aslam Madhyana, who is accused of breaking a teacher’s legs, on Wednesday due to lack of time.

Madhyana has asked the court to remove Section 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act of 1997 from the list of offences he is accused of committing in the FIR and transfer the case to a sessions court. The bench had earlier stopped a Sargodha anti terrorism court from announcing its decision in the case.

The petitioner contended that the incident was the outcome of a personal enmity. He said that a medical board constituted on the complainant’s request had concluded that the teacher’s injuries were not a result of gunshots, as he had claimed, but of blunt force.

He said that the complainant claimed that Madhyana and accomplices had shot him in a market, but no shopkeepers had testified to witnessing this.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 10^th, 2012.