Prove your innocence in court: LHC
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Friday disposed of a writ petition seeking quashment of an FIR registered against more than 150 Provincial Civil Services (PCS) officials because a challan had already been submitted in a trial court.
Justice Chaudhry said that the officials could now prove their innocence before the court. Earlier, a law officer appearing on behalf of the government told the court that the FIR could not be quashed after a court had been requested to hear the case.Petitioners’ counsel Asghar Ali Gill had submitted that the FIR was baseless. He had said that the PCS officers had been protesting for their rights and that none of their activities could be described as unconstitutional or anti-state.
The FIR was registered in March charging these officials with instigating their colleagues to protest, distributing pamphlets with provocative content and of acts of terrorism.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 23rd, 2011.
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