Model town case: Court hears plea on stolen evidence

LAHORE:

An additional district and sessions judge on Monday heard a petition regarding missing evidence on some matters pertaining to a police operation against workers of the Minhajul Quran International Secretariat at Model Town on June 17.

Mansoorur Rehman Khan Afridi, the lawyer representing the Minhajul Quran International in the Model Town case, has filed the petition.

Afridi told the sessions court that he had collected documentary and video evidence about the Model Town incident, in which 14 Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PTI) workers were killed in a clash with police.

“I kept all the evidence at my office,” he told the sessions court.

Afridi said that on August 19, he went to his office and found that it had been ransacked by unidentified thieves.

“All the evidence linked to the Model Town incident that I had so painstakingly collected, has now been stolen,” he lamented.

Mansoorur Rehman Khan Afridi requested the sessions court to direct the Islampura station house officer to register a case against unidentified thieves who had stolen the evidence. The court has fixed August 26 for hearing.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 26^th, 2014.