ISLAMABAD - The Awami National Party on Monday requested the Supreme Court to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Chief Secretary, Home Secretary and Inspector General of Police Sindh for not implementing its order, in a suo moto case pertaining to worsening law and order situation in Karachi.
Senator Haji Muhammad Adeel, Senior Vice President, Awami National Party filed a contempt of court petition under Section 5 of the Contempt of Court Ordinance 2003 read with Article 204 of the Constitution, praying the court to initiate contempt proceedings against Raja Muhammad Abbas, Chief Secretary, Waseem Ahmed, Home Secretary and Faiz Laghari, Inspector General of Police, Sindh Karachi for not implementing its order in letter and spirit.
He contended that the observations and declarations, made in the suo moto case regarding worst law and order situation in Karachi by the apex court on October 6, 2012 have been wilfully ignored rather violated.
Filed through Abdul Latif Afridi, senior Advocate of the Supreme Court, Haji Adeel recalled that the apex court had observed in the said order that in order to avoid political polarisation and to break up the cycle of ethnic strife and turf-war boundaries of administrative units like police stations, revenue estates etc ought to be altered so that members of different communities may live in peace and harmony and subsequent there to de-limitation of different constituencies has also be undertaken with the same object to make Karachi as peaceful City.
The petitioner, however, contended that the respondents including Chief Secretary, Home Secretary and IGP, Sindh have done nothing in this regard and thus the observations and declarations of the court stand violated.
Similarly, he submitted that the court direction regarding formation of a commission by the provincial government to make inquiries and give findings with respect to compensations to those who lost their lives and properties was also not yet implemented, adding, that at least he is not aware of any such step which by itself amounts to contempt of court.
The petitioner contended that the respondents are responsible for under the law to implement, execute the orders, directions of the court but they have wilfully neglected the same and thus they have wilfully disobeyed the directions, which warrants contempt proceedings against them.