Equal justice: Application demanding separate FIRs for each APS martyr
Says original report did not state name of single student
CREATIVE COMMONS
PESHAWAR:
An application demanding the registration of a separate FIR for each child martyred in the Army Public School attack was filed at Peshawar High Court on Friday.
The application was filed by Shahid Orakzai, a journalist, with Michni SHO and Peshawar district and sessions judge as respondents.
Orakzai said Michni police had registered a single FIR for 153 children who had lost their lives on December 16, 2014. “The FIR does not have the name of a single martyred child,” he said.
He added the police station lacked resources to investigate so many cases therefore the parents of each martyred child should register a separate FIR. Orakzai demanded each case should be investigated separately.
“Not probing into each registered FIR will be a violation of the Quran and Constitution of Pakistan,” he wrote in the application.
The applicant urged the court to constitute a larger bench to investigate the tragedy and direct district and sessions judge to register separate FIRs and follow up on subsequent investigations.
“A similar application was heard by a division bench at Peshawar High Court on March 3 and later transferred to Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel but it is yet to be heard,” said Orakzai.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2015.
An application demanding the registration of a separate FIR for each child martyred in the Army Public School attack was filed at Peshawar High Court on Friday.
The application was filed by Shahid Orakzai, a journalist, with Michni SHO and Peshawar district and sessions judge as respondents.
Orakzai said Michni police had registered a single FIR for 153 children who had lost their lives on December 16, 2014. “The FIR does not have the name of a single martyred child,” he said.
He added the police station lacked resources to investigate so many cases therefore the parents of each martyred child should register a separate FIR. Orakzai demanded each case should be investigated separately.
“Not probing into each registered FIR will be a violation of the Quran and Constitution of Pakistan,” he wrote in the application.
The applicant urged the court to constitute a larger bench to investigate the tragedy and direct district and sessions judge to register separate FIRs and follow up on subsequent investigations.
“A similar application was heard by a division bench at Peshawar High Court on March 3 and later transferred to Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel but it is yet to be heard,” said Orakzai.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2015.