Is this Naya Pakistan’s police which cannot control Mansha Bomb, asks CJP
LAHORE (1st December, 2018): Hon. Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar today criticized the Punjab Police and questioned whether this is ‘Naya Pakistan’s police’ which cannot control land grabber Mansha Bomb.
A two-judge bench headed by CJP Mian Saqib Nisar is hearing a ‘suo moto’ case against land grabber Mansha Bomb at the Supreme Court’s Lahore Registry.
As the hearing went under way, the Hon. CJP criticized the Punjab Police over not returning the land recovered from Mansha Bomb to affected people and rejected a report submitted by Punjab Police DIG Waqqas Nazir.
“Is this Naya Pakistan’s police? The police should be ashamed, they are abused but still defend gangsters. Police cannot control one Mansha Bomb,” Hon. Chief Justice remarked.
“You are involved with gangsters. Is this how you are safeguarding the law?” Hon. CJP inquired.
Following this, DIG Police Waqqas Nazir informed the bench, “The police arrested Mansha Bomb and Khadim Hussain Rizvi. We are implementing court orders”.
In response to DIG Waqas Nazir’s statement, the Hon. CJP asked the DIG, “What is your relation with Mansha Bomb? Why are you defending him? You will not go back in your uniform. We are summoning Mansha Bomb, Afzal Khokhar and all others involved in this case”.
Hon. CJP then directed authorities to bring Mansha Bomb to the court and submit a report on the case in addition to returning the stolen land to the affectees by midnight today.
The bench then summoned IG Punjab, DC Lahore, Sessions Judge, related civil judges and overseas Pakistanis judge Noor Muhammed in his chambers.
Last month, the CJP had ordered immediate arrest of the alleged land grabber, however, the authorities had failed to fulfill the court’s orders.
Suspected land grabber Malik Mansha Ali Khokhar, commonly known as Mansha ‘Bomb’ and his sons are accused of illegally grabbing land in Lahore’s Johar Town vicinity. They were booked earlier this month for attacking a Lahore Development Authority (LDA) team during an anti-encroachment operation in the area.
On October 15, Mansha was arrested from the Supreme Court premises after he had gone there to “surrender himself” and also demanded to meet Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar.
Wanted by police in over 70 reported criminal cases in the provincial capital, Mansha had spent more than four to five hours in the SC premises hoping to meet the CJP in person.
In a letter to the Supreme Court, Mansha wrote that suo motu proceedings had been initiated against him but he was unable to appear before the SC on the date fixed as he was unaware of the proceedings. The letter added that Mansha was living at a different address than the one mentioned on his CNIC.
However, the CJP did not take the matter up and did not meet Mansha. The suspected land grabber was taken into custody by officials of the Secretariat Police Station.