Model Town case adjourned

LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court Friday adjourned the hearing of Model Town case after recording statements of three witnesses. The court was adjourned for today (Saturday).

It is pertinent to mention here that the ATC is conducting hearing of the case on daily basis on the directions of the apex court. Earlier, the court had indicted 116 police officials on a private complaint filed by Idara Minhajul Quran for seeking their trial on charges of killing its workers in Model Town incident in 2014.

The court had in 2017 partially admitted the complaint against 125 officials of police and district government while rejecting it to the extent of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and 10 others, including federal and provincial ministers.

The 12 political leaders against whom the ATC had rejected the complaint were Nawaz Sharif, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, MNA Hamza Shahbaz, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, Railways Minister Khwaja Saad Rafique, Foreign Minister Khwaja Asif, former information minister Pervaiz Rashid, State Minister Abid Sher Ali, former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, then personal secretary to chief minister Syed Tauqir Shah, home minister Azam Suleman and then Lahore commissioner Rashid Mahmood Langrial.