Right to information: Larger bench asked to hear plea on Model Town report

LAHORE:

Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday referred a petition regarding the Model Town police operation to be heard by a larger bench.

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Zubair Niazi filed the petition seeking an order to make public the report of the judicial commission into the Model Town operation.

Niazi said the government had placed the commission’s report in “cold storage.”

He said the government had deliberately stopped the report from being released in order to protect those responsible for killing 14 Pakistan Awami Tehreek workers.

He asked the court to direct the government to release the tribunal’s report so that the culprits could be taken to task.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 18^th, 2014.