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May12 tragedy is under investigation.
**Fresh investigation of May 12 incidents orderd
KARACHI:** Additional District and Session Judge, Mohammad Azim, while announcing his decision on a petition of the Karachi Bar Association (KBCA) challenging the quashing of their earlier on court intervention registered FIR relating to the May 12 incidents here, ordered fresh investigation of the case.
KBCA had got the case registered with the City Court Police Station alleging detention of lawyers by kidnapping, attacking them, torching of Bar Room and hurling threats, while the lawyers were on their way to welcome the Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on his arrival here on May 12.
This case was filed on the orders of Additional District and Session Judge South, Mohammad Azim and Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Government of Sindh and police officers have been made the respondents. The SHO City Court after registering the FIR had quashed it in haste, on which, the KBCA had challenged this act of City Court Police station SHO.
The Additional District and Session Judge announcing his verdict ordered the City Court Police investigation department to investigate the case afresh.
KARACHI, May 25: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has pledged that the May 12 incidents would be probed at a high level and in a transparent manner. Talking to a delegation, led by a former chief justice of the Supreme Court, Justice (r) Saeeduz Zaman Siddiqui, at the Governor’s House on Friday, he held out the assurance that the entire province, particularly Karachi, would be made free of illegal arms with the cooperation of political parties. Read More