Ghalib Market: SHO accused of ignoring court orders

a cheque for Rs50,000 was tampered and changed to Rs150,000 cheque.

LAHORE:

Additional District and Sessions Judge Anjum Raza on Thursday directed the capital city police officer to hold a departmental inquiry into the Ghalib Market station house officer’s apparent refusal to comply with court orders.

Ramazan, a resident of Gulberg, had filed a contempt petition contending that the SHO had ignored court orders to record his cheque fraud complaint.

According to Ramazan’s petition, he had given a man named Sajid a cheque for Rs50,000, but he had tampered with it and changed it into a Rs150,000 cheque. The cheque bounced and Sajid then lodged a case against him. Ramazan was arrested. After he got bail, he moved the court seeking a cheque tampering case against Sajid.

Ramazan said the court had ordered the SHO to record his statement, but the SHO had ignored the court’s orders.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 30^th, 2011.