SC takes notice of cold storage fire incident

The CJ requested reports after taking suo motu notice on an application, filed with the SC Human Rights Cell.

KARACHI: Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani on Tuesday requested reports from the interior secretary and the Civil Aviation Authority chairman regarding the incident, wherein seven persons had perished inside the cold storage on the premises of the Karachi airport, during the attack by militants.

The chief justice requested the reports after taking suo motu notice on an application, filed with the Supreme Court Human Rights Cell.

The application was filed by Advocate Nadeem A Shaikh and others, stating that seven persons had died on June 8 after a fire broke out inside a foreign goods’ company’s cold storage during the militants attack on the airport.

The applicants stated that several days have passed but no legal, moral and financial assistance has been provided by the government or any other organisation to the families of the deceased persons.

The applicants pleaded to the apex court to order action against the authorities concerned, directing them to give compensation to the victims’ families at the earliest.

Taking notice on the plea, CJ Jillani ordered that a “report be called from chairman Civil Aviation Authority and Secretary Ministry of Interior Islamabad within two weeks.”