Shab-e-Barat preparations: SHC directs police, home dept to ensure ban on firecrackers is imposed
Judges tell SHO to file report on fire at crackers factory.
Judges tell SHO to file report on fire at crackers factory. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) directed the home department and police authorities on Thursday to ensure no one violates the law restricting the manufacturing, sale and purchase of firecrackers ahead of the Shab-e-Barat.
A division bench, comprising justices Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi and Muhammad Junaid Ghaffar, also directed the Memon Goth police station house officer to submit a complete report on the tragic fire at the fireworks manufacturing factory last month where five people died.
A civil right campaigner, Rana Faizul Hasan, had approached the court to seek a ban on the manufacturing, sale and purchase of such materials. He submitted that the home department had banned the manufacturing, sale and purchase of the firecrackers in the province under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) on July 3, 2012. Only nine days are left to the advent of Shab-e-Barat and the authorities have yet to notify this ban.
Hasan recalled that five men had died in the blast at a firecrackers manufacturing factory in Memon Goth on May 21. He argued that inaction on the part of the respondent officials in saving lives of the people is a severe violation of their rights guaranteed in the Constitution. He pleaded the court direct the authorities to implement articles 8, 18 and 25 of the Constitution and ban the manufacturing and sale of such materials immediately.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 6th, 2014.
The Sindh High Court (SHC) directed the home department and police authorities on Thursday to ensure no one violates the law restricting the manufacturing, sale and purchase of firecrackers ahead of the Shab-e-Barat.
A division bench, comprising justices Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi and Muhammad Junaid Ghaffar, also directed the Memon Goth police station house officer to submit a complete report on the tragic fire at the fireworks manufacturing factory last month where five people died.
A civil right campaigner, Rana Faizul Hasan, had approached the court to seek a ban on the manufacturing, sale and purchase of such materials. He submitted that the home department had banned the manufacturing, sale and purchase of the firecrackers in the province under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) on July 3, 2012. Only nine days are left to the advent of Shab-e-Barat and the authorities have yet to notify this ban.
Hasan recalled that five men had died in the blast at a firecrackers manufacturing factory in Memon Goth on May 21. He argued that inaction on the part of the respondent officials in saving lives of the people is a severe violation of their rights guaranteed in the Constitution. He pleaded the court direct the authorities to implement articles 8, 18 and 25 of the Constitution and ban the manufacturing and sale of such materials immediately.
Issuing notices to the respondents for June 12, the two judges also ordered them “to ensure that no violation of any law may be allowed to be committed”. SHO Memon Goth police was also directed to submit a complete report on the factory fire by the next date of hearing.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 6th, 2014.