LHC summons CTD SHO on Hafiz Saeed plea

Petitioner has asked multiple FIRs against him and others be declared illegal

LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court issued notices to the CTD SHO on a plea seeking the dismissal of several FIRs registered against Jamatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and others. The bench also directed the respondent SHO to appear in person before the court.

Justice Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi asked the petitioner's counsel whether he wants the FIRs to be quashed. The counsel replied that the petitioner wants an order from the court which declares the FIRs illegal.  The counsel contended that there is a similarity in all the FIRs. He added the first and the last ones mentioned by his side had the same content. However, the bench issued a notice to the respondent SHO and sought a reply on the matter in two weeks. It also asked that he appear before the court in person.

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Petitioner Malik Zafar Iqbal contended in his petition that there were 23 FIRs registered at different police stations against 68 respondents, including Hafiz Saeed and others, under false charges. He said the impugned FIRs described the petitioner as the head of Lashkar-e-Taiba. He claimed this was both factually and legally incorrect.

He submitted that petitioner Hafiz Saeed and others are not the members of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba as was held in a full bench order of the LHC in 2009. “The federal and provincial government had challenged this order in the Supreme Court, but it was upheld and therefore withdrawn. The petitioners have no nexus with Lashkar-e-Taiba”.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 28^th, 2019.