Sunday, June 12, 2011

Removal of IGP, DG Rangers Sindh Govt to file review petition

Islamabad—The Sindh government has decided to file a review petition in the Supreme Court, which ordered the removal of the Sindh Rangers Director General and the Sindh Police Inspector General within three days.

Talking to a private TV channel here on Saturday, Sindh Law Minister Ayaz Soomro said that Sindh Advocate General would file a review petition in the Supreme Court. The minister said that killing the youth in Karachi was an individual act of the Rangers personnel and institutions were not involved in it.

So the chiefs of Sindh Rangers and police had nothing to do with the killing, he said. He said that legal assistance would be given to the family of the deceased, besides providing protection to the cameraman and the journalists who covered the incident. Meanwhile, talking to a private TV channel, Advocate General Sindh Abdul Fattal Malik said that he

received order to submit review appeal against the Supreme Court decision.

He said that he on behalf of the government of Sindh will file appeal against the Supreme Court orders about removal of the IG Sindh Police and the Director General Rangers after getting the attested copies of the Supreme Court decision.

The Supreme Court during suo moto hearing about the killing of a youth in Karachi by Rangers ordered the government to notify removal of the DG Rangers and the IG Police Sindh within three days but the Sindh government had decided to file petition in the Supreme Court for reviewing the decision.—INP