Sindh High Court building. PHOTO: EXPRESS
Headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, the division bench allowed time on the request of the provincial law officer during a hearing of a petition seeking strict enforcement of the ban on the manufacture and sale of toy guns.
The petitioner, Rana Faizul Hasan, the general secretary of the United Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, had taken the provincial chief secretary, the police chief and other respondents to court. He argued that toy guns were instigating violent behaviours among children, yet they were being openly sold in the markets all over the province without any restriction.
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He informed the judges that the Sindh Assembly had also passed a resolution, calling for a complete ban on the manufacture, import and sale of toy guns. He recalled that the resolution was passed in August this year but the authorities had not taken any practical step so far to implement the ban in letter and spirit.
Hasan pleaded the court direct the provincial and local authorities to enforce the law banning all manufacture, sale and import of the toy guns.
During Friday's proceedings, a law officer representing the provincial government requested for time to enable him to file comments of the authorities on efforts made to implement the ban. Granting the request, the judges allowed time to the respondents to file their comments by the next date of hearing, which will be later notified by the office.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 15th, 2015.
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