Electronic evidence gets legal cover

LAHORE

An amendment has been approved by the parliament to Article 164 of the QSO, 1984, and the evidence collected through modern devices will not only be relevant but also the basis of conviction as well.

According to sources, the Safe Cities Authority had sent recommendation to the federal and provincial governments to give proper legal cover to the electronic evidence collected, generated and stored in PPIC3 centres managed by Punjab Safe Cities Authority.

The proposed amendment was approved by the parliament. 

Legal experts have welcomed the amendment and commented that now courts would be under legal cover to convict the accused based on electronic evidence and no accused will be spared from the digital equipment and eye of law.

cops rewarded: Additional Inspector General of Police, Punjab Highway Patrol, Amjad Javed Saleemi chaired a meeting in Central Police Office, Lahore, on Thursday. 

PHP DIG Ghulam Mehmood Dogar, PHP HQ SSP Imran Kishwar and all regional SSPs participated in the meeting. 

Additional IGP Amjad Javed Saleemi and DIG Ghulam Mehmood Doger awarded 262 officials cash reward of Rs 800,000 on their good performance, including 31 officials of riverian posts and 39 of inter-provincial border check posts.

DSP Farooq Hundal, Azmat Kamran, Rafique Ahmed, Inspector Iqbal Kazmi and Mazher Farid received Rs 20,000 each. Best post in charges named Muhammad Kashif, Irfan, Rashid and Asif Nadeem got Rs 20,000 each.

Amjad Javed Saleemi said law must be implemented in real sense.

He said culprits should not be neglected while law-abiding citizens should not be disturbed. He asked the officers concerned to conduct psychological profiling of bad tempered officials, and  proceed against them if they were not fit.  

Accidents: At least 607 road accidents were reported to the Provincial Monitoring Cell of the Punjab Emergency Service/Rescue 1122 from all districts of Punjab during the last 24 hours. Nine people were killed and 551 badly injured in the road accidents.

The injured were removed to hospitals. However, some 172 victims, who sustained minor injuries, were discharged on the spot after provision of first aid by the emergency medical teams.