Official perks: Purchase of vehicles challenged in court

Advocate AK Dogar says govt planning to purchase 80 new cars for secretaries and chairmen from public exchequer.

LAHORE:

A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court on Friday against the purchase of 80 new vehicles by the government for secretaries and chairmen of parliamentary committees.

Advocate AK Dogar said the government was planning to purchase 80 new cars for secretaries and chairmen of standing committees of the provincial assembly from the public exchequer.

“The people do not have basic necessities and our rulers are spending the taxpayer’s money on luxuries,” he said.

He said it would be a waste of public money.

He requested the court to stop the government from purchasing the vehicles.

Complaints cell

The Lahore High Court Complaints Cell on Friday directed the Gujranwala district and sessions judge to investigate reports that a baby had been thrown into a drain by an addict and submit a report about the steps taken by the police in this regard.

The directions were issued following reports that Saima, wife of a labourer Irfan of Jinnah Colony, was on her way home when an unidentified addict stopped her on Industrial Road and demanded some money.

Saima had Rs10 on her which she offered to him.

The report said the addict snatched her two-month-old daughter and threw her into a nearby drain.

The report said some passers-by heard Saima’s screams and fished the baby out of the drain.

The baby was taken to a hospital where doctors pronounced her dead on arrival.

The report said Sabzi Mandi police had registered a case against an unidentified man .

Published in The Express Tribune, January 25^th, 2014.