Property case: DSP accused of forgery

Court fixes March 19 for hearing arguments.

LAHORE:

An additional district and sessions judge on Friday fixed March 19 for preliminary arguments in a petition seeking registration of case against six men, including two policemen, for transferring the petitioner’s property using forged documents.

Petitioner Haji Muhammad Ahmed, a former nazim, said that four men- Safdar Khan, Muhammad Ramazan, Imdad Khan and Zahid Khan-had sold some houses after constructing them on occupied land allocated for a graveyard a few months ago. Ahmed said the men had done so in connivance with the then assistant commissioner Sajid Safdar, which was later established in an inquiry.

The petitioner said that using his contacts from the time when he was a nazim, he had gotten the land back and gotten a case registered against the men for illegally constructing houses on graveyard land. He said DSP Iqbal Shah had been appointed as the investigation officer in the case.

He said when the DSP demanded that he be bribed to probe the case, he moved applications with the Punjab inspector general and the senior superintendent of police (investigation). He said the DSP had developed a grudge against him and supported the men prepare false documents to transfer his property in their names.

He requested the court to direct the police to register a case against the respondents.

Sectarian violence

An additional district and sessions judge on Friday sought comments from the Shadbagh station house officer in a petition filed by a woman seeking registration of a case against some people, who she said had attacked her children because they were Shia.

Petitioner Najma Khanum told the court that her son and daughter were attacked by some people, who said they wanted to eliminate Shias from the country.

She said her son was on way his way home from his office, when he accidently hit a flower pot outside a neighbouring house.

She said while her son had stopped to see the damage to the car, Mehmood Khan, Awais Khan and Majid Khan, also residents of the neighbourhood, attacked him.

She said when her daughter tried to stop them, she, too, was beaten.

She said her son and daughter later told her that the men kept saying that they should be killed, since they were a Shia family.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 15^th, 2014.