Azhar Siddique advocate filed the petition on Wednesday, pleading the court to stop all vehicles plying on the roads that did not meet requirements of Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1965 and Motor Vehicles Rules 1969. He said that in 2005, in Ghaziabad area of Lahore, dozens of lives were lost when firecrackers exploded in a bus. He said a murder case was registered with the North Cantt police and the LHC, in December 2006, had ordered a comprehensive system to control public transports. However, the order was not implemented, he maintained.
The petition prayed to the court that a murder case should be registered against the persons who had issued licences to substandard and faulty buses. He said directions might be issued to the Punjab government to introduce a computerised system for public and private vehicles. He said strict action should be taken against the responsible irrespective of their status.
Plea dismissed: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition seeking disqualification of PML-N MNA Pervaiz Malik from NA-123 due to non-prosecution.
The petition was filed by Naik Muhammad alleging that the respondent MNA had rigged the election and secured seat by illegal means, requesting the court to de-seat him as he had violated election rules.
However, on Wednesday, neither the petitioner nor his counsel appeared before the court. On it, the judge dismissed the petition due to non-prosecution.
disqualification: The chief justice of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday referred an application to Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh, seeking early hearing of a petition for disqualification of PML-N MNA Mian Javed Latif, from NA-133, Sheikhupura.
The petitioner, Muhammad Sarfraz, had moved the application to fix his case for immediate hearing. The CJ referred the application to Justice Sheikh who seized the matter.
The petitioner accused the MNA of holding a fake degree of BA, saying Latif was involved in a case of impersonation as he had not taken examination of BA himself. He sought disqualification of the respondent being not a righteous and honest person and did not fulfill the provisions of Article 62 of the constitution to be elected as member assembly.
ban on Mall rallies challenged: A writ petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court, challenging the ban on taking out rallies on The Mall.
The petition was filed by Imamia Student Organization president Abbas Shah who pleaded that it was the constitutional right of every citizen to record protest and ban on rallies on The Mall was a violation of the right.