LAHORE: A three-member bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday adjourned the hearing of an Intra-Court Appeal (ICA) filed by the Punjab government against LHC single bench orders for making the Model Town inquiry report public till November 21. He said that the respondents (heirs of the Model Town incident victims) had not approached the former single bench with clean hands, as they had not applied for the provision of the Model Town inquiry report to the concerned authorities previously. He said that the heirs of the Model Town incident victims had failed to disclose that identical petitions were being heard by a full bench. He questioned how a single bench could decide a petition when identical petitions were being heard by a full bench. On September 21, the former single bench comprising Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi had ordered the Punjab home secretary to make the Model Town report public while allowing a petition filed by heirs of Model Town incident victims.

Source: Pakistan Today November 16, 2017 18:22 UTC