Sahiwal incident: LHC to hear petition of deceased Khalil's brother on February 4
A two-member bench including Chief Justice of LHC will hear the petition.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday has fixed for hearing petition of Sahiwal tragedy victim Khalil’s brother Jalil on February 4.
According to details, a two-member bench headed by Chief Justice of LHC will hear the petition.
In the petition, Jalil has pleaded the court to nullify Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed to probe into the incident as he is not expecting justice from it.
The plaintiff has made Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and Punjab Inspector General (IG) Amjad Javed Saleemi parties in the case.
It is pertinent here to mention that the CTD officials had killed four people, including a couple and their teenage daughter, and injured a teenage boy in a suspicious ‘encounter’ on GT Road near Sahiwal.
The incident had triggered a nationwide outcry that prompted the government to take the security officials into custody and order an investigation into the incident.
The suspects were identified as Shahid Jabbar and Abdul Rehman travelling towards Sahiwal and were reportedly in possession of arms and explosives, CTD stated.
The counter-terrorism officials claimed that the operation was conducted to capture an ‘Islamic State (IS) commander’ on a tip off by an intelligence agency
