A court has dismissed a petition for the facelifts of a building that was attacked by arsonists at the height of the movement for the restoration of the judiciary in 2008 because of a no-show from their lawyer.
On April 9, 2008, Tahir Plaza with lawyers’ offices was set on fire and seven people, including four lawyers, were burnt to death. Half a dozen offices were reduced to ashes.
The plaza’s owner Ghulam Qadir Jatoi filed a constitutional petition seeking orders to the authorities to repair it and for the severed utility connections to be restored.
However, on Friday, Justice Maqbool Baqar and Justice Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui of the Sindh High Court dismissed the case for non-prosecution as Ghulam Qadir Jatoi, who is also a lawyer, was absent again.
The court observed that the petitioner seemed to have lost interest in the matter.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 7th, 2012.
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