ISLAMABAD, Nov 7 (FD): The Supreme Court has directed the Punjab inspector general to register a case of the attack on PTI chief Imran Khan in Wazirabad within 24 hours.
Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial remarked that the apex court would take suo motu notice if the FIR was not registered.
The apex court’s orders came following the November 3 assassination attempt in Wazirabad on Imran Khan which left him injured during his party’s much-toted anti-government long march towards Islamabad.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, addressing the Punjab advocate-general, said that under the criminal justice system, the police can file an FIR on their own and that 90 hours have passed [since the attack] and an FIR has not been filed.
At this, the Punjab IG said that the Punjab government had prohibited registration of the FIR.
The CJP ordered the Punjab IG to register an FIR of the attack within 24 hours and said that if the case is not registered, the court would take suo motu notice.
PTI’s Fawad Chaudhry has termed the Supreme Court’s directives regarding the registration of a first information report on the attack against Imran as the “first step towards justice”.
