LAHORE – Chief Justice of Lahore High Court (LHC) Sardar Muhammad ShamimKhan on Tuesday has taken up the issue of the Sahiwal encounter judicialprobe..
Chief Justice remarked that judicial commission to probe Sahiwal incidentcan be constituted after consultation with provincial government.
During the hearing on the plea demanding judicial inquiry of the tragicincident, Justice Shamim Khan has summoned government lawyer forassistance.
The court has also summoned Inspector General of Punjab (IG) and otherofficials on January 24.
Earlier, decision to not hold judicial inquiry in Sahiwal incident waschallenged in LHC. The plaintiff said CTD killed parents of innocentchildren infront of them.
On Saturday, CTD officials killed four people, including a couple and theirteenage daughter in an alleged “encounter” in Sahiwal, triggering anational outcry that prompted the government to take the security officialsinto custody and order an investigation into the incident.
The officials claimed that the ‘terrorists’ were killed in an intelligencebased operation (IBO). Three other terrorists including Shahid Jabar andAbdul Rahman managed to flee during the chase near the toll plaza ofSahiwal.