LAHORE: Proceeding of the Model Town tragedy case will resume from March 14 in the Lahore High Court (LHC) as a larger bench of the court will hear the case.
Chief Justice LHC Ameer Bhatti will lead the proceedings of the larger bench and will hear the petitions filed by the policemen against a JIT probing the incident.
Justice Malik Shehzad Ahmed Khan, Justice Miss Aalia Neelam, Justice Shehbaz Rizvi, Justice Sardar Ahmed Naeem, Justice Sarfaraz Dogar, and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh will be the other members of the bench.
In September last year, a seven-member larger bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has been continued to hear petitions against the new Model Town JIT.
The LHC had ordered the new JIT to stop the probe and told the government to cancel the notification of its formation after the new JIT was challenged in the high court.
On June 17, 2014, Punjab police went to remove the barriers placed outside PAT Chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri’s residence and Minhajul Quran Secretariat in Model Town of Lahore. The workers resisted the move, which led to a deadly clash leaving 14 people dead and dozens of others injured.
