LAHORE: A judicial Justice of the Peace on Saturday accepted a four-day bodily remand of 4 officers accused within the case of a mom and her minor daughter who fell right into a manhole close to Bhatti Gate earlier this week and died.
The 2 had fallen into the sewer on the web site of the under-construction Knowledge Darbar enlargement venture close to Bhatti Gate on Wednesday. Whereas the lady’s physique was discovered late at night time the identical day, the 10-month-old kid’s physique was recovered on Thursday.
Earlier, police offered the arrested officers earlier than the Justice of the Peace at district courts and sought their 14-day bodily remand. The request was heard by Judicial Justice of the Peace Shafqat Abbas.
In the course of the listening to, a counsel for the accused opposed the police plea, arguing {that a} bodily remand was pointless.
The protection counsel knowledgeable the court docket that Rs10 million had been paid to the aggrieved household within the type of a examine on humanitarian grounds, producing a photocopy of the examine issued.
He admitted that the incident was tragic.
The Justice of the Peace accepted a four-day remand, directing that the police full their investigation in the course of the remand interval and produce the suspects once more on February 3.
Within the court docket order seen by Daybreakthe investigating officer (IO) was directed to additionally examine the case “on the side of contributory negligence of officers/officers of Wasa (Water and Sanitation Company) and the civil administration as nicely accountable to take care of the continuing building venture on the place of incidence”.
Final month, a seven-year-old boy in Punjab’s Bahawalpur district fell into an open manhole in Dhanote city close to Lodhran metropolis and died.
The identical month, a three-year-old boy’s physique was recovered from an open manhole in Karachi’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal space, greater than 12 hours after the incident was first reported.
