Seizure Of Vehicles: Reports sought from high-ups

The petitioner maintains that the CCPO’s orders are illegal and are being used to harass citizens.

LAHORE:

An additional district and sessions judge has sought reports from 14 senior police officials for March 9 on a petition asking the court to nullify the capital city police officer’s (CCPO) order to confiscate unattended or unregistered vehicles.

The petitioner, Chaudhary Shahid Nawab Cheema, maintains that the CCPO’s orders are illegal and are being used to harass citizens.

He had submitted that the CCPO had issued an order instructing police officials to seize motorbikes and cars left unattended in non-parking areas or those without number plates or damaged number plates, under Article 134 of the Police Order of 2002.

He said that the article required police officials to submit a report on each vehicle seized to the area magistrate, but they were not doing so.

He said that issuing tickets to motorbikes and cars without number plates or with damaged plates was the responsibility of the Excise and Taxation Department, not of the police.

He said that the CCPO’s orders should be declared illegal.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 5^th, 2013.