LAHORE: A neighborhood court docket granted 4 days’ bodily remand of 5 accused to police in Bhati Gate manhole incident wherein a lady and her nine-month-old daughter misplaced their lives.
Police produced the accused earlier than judicial Justice of the Peace Shafqat Abbas in native court docket, which granted 4 days bodily remand of the accused to police.
The accused included Mission Supervisor Asghar Sandhu, security in-charge Hunzala, web site in-charge Ahmad Nawaz and two brothers Salman and Usman working for a non-public firm.
The police requested for 14 days bodily remand of the accused to inquire into the incident and to assemble substantial proof by questioning the accused accountable for the negligence.
The protection lawyer opposed the bodily remand request and mentioned that it was a particularly regretful incident and the accused have given a verify of Rs 10 million to the aggrieved household as compensation.
The court docket after listening to arguments of the legal professionals granted 4 days bodily remand of the accused.
An inquiry committee fashioned by the Punjab Inspector Normal of Police (IGP) earlier accomplished its investigation into torture allegations of Ghulam Murtaza following the Bhati Gate incident in Lahore, wherein his spouse and nine-month-old daughter misplaced their lives after falling into an open manhole.
In line with the inquiry report, three cops — the SP Metropolis, the SDPO, and the involved SHO — have been discovered accountable for negligence. The committee said that Ghulam Murtaza, the husband of the Bhati Gate sufferer, was subjected to torture contained in the SHO’s retiring room, allegedly within the presence of the SP.
The inquiry committee was constituted to probe allegations of custodial torture after the sufferer’s husband was taken into custody following the incident. The panel was headed by AIG CIA Imran Mahmood, with DIG Ahmed Nasir Aziz and DIG Imran Kishore as members.
A girl and her nine-month-old daughter misplaced their lives after falling into an open sewage drain close to Bhati Gate on January 28, 2026. The kid’s physique was recovered roughly 17 hours later, practically eight kilometers from the location, whereas the mom’s physique was recovered round six hours after the incident.
Initially, the rescue groups and different officers known as the incident pretend. Regardless of repeated pleas from the sufferer’s household, the district administration denied the incident, however the place modified after the mom’s physique was recovered.
