Model Town carnage: PAT submits plea in LHC for issuing notification of new JIT
SC had disposed of PAT's plea and directed the provincial ?government to reconstitute the team.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Saturday has filed a plea in Lahore High Court (LHC) demanding Punjab government to issue notification regarding formation of new joint investigation team (JIT) to probe Model Town carnage.
On December 5, Supreme Court (SC) had disposed of PAT’s plea and directed the provincial government to reconstitute the team to investigate Model Town massacre.
During the proceedings, PAT chief broke into tears and said that the victims of Model Town incident were waiting for the justice from past four years. The previous JIT was formed without taking us into confidence, he added.
Earlier, Lahore High Court (LHC) had turned down PAT plea seeking summons of ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif, former Chief Minister of Punjab (CM) Shahbaz Sharif and ten other ministers in the case.
PAT, in its appeal against the ruling of the trial court, had requested LHC to call former ministers Khawaja Saad Rafique, Rana Sanaullah, Khawaja Asif and others in the case.
Police sources had revealed that former Punjab law minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Rana Sanaullah was the mastermind of the carnage. Sanaullah had directed to launch operation against the Model Town protesters despite opposition from the then home secretary Azam Suleman, they added.
On June 17, 2014, Punjab police went to remove the barriers placed outside PAT Chief Dr Tahirul Qadri’s residence and MQI Secretariat in Model Town. The MQI workers resisted the move which led to a deadly clash leaving 14 workers dead and dozens injured.
