LAHORE – Over the Punjab Institute of Cardiology Lahore attack incident,Inquiry Report blames two senior police officers for negligence.
Two senior police officials have been declared guilty by an investigationcommittee – formed on orders of Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Bazdar –in the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) incident.
Additional IG Azhar Hameed Khokar submitted the report to Usman Bazdar onMonday (yesterday) which maintains that the incident occurred due tonegligence of SSP Operations Lahore Muhammad Naveed and SP Civil Lines DostMuhammad Khosa.
The report states that SP Dost Muhammad Khosa did not reach the PIC on timewhen lawyers held their rally whereas SSP Operations Muhammad Naveed failedto take any step even after reaching the incident spot.
It has further been stated that the police officials, who were deployednear the hospital, were not properly guided. The committee concluded thathesitation in taking any action worsened the matter.
Read Top Stories
The provincial cabinet will deliberate on the findings by the investigationcommittee in the light of its report in next meeting and decide to takeaction against the officers.
It is pertinent here to mention a violent clash had erupted betweenhundreds of lawyers and doctors in December, 2019 which left at least threepeople dead when the charged lawyers stormed into the PIC and broke windowsof the emergency ward and several vehicles parked nearby.
Two FIRs (first information reports) were registered against over 250lawyers who were involved in the attack.
