The Supreme Court has summoned Advocate General Punjab, District Nazim and District Co-ordination Officer and the authority responsible for water supply in Faisalabad on July 17 in Lahore.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has taken Suo Motu notice on a complaint regarding supply of polluted water to the citizens in Faisalabad due to which several people had died or fallen ill during the past few months.
Supreme Court sources told Business Recorder that a social worker of Faisalabad Qazi Muhammad Bakhsh, had complained that, in the locality of Ghulam Muhammadabad, of Faisalabad 12 persons died, and a large number of people were admitted in General Hospital, Faisalabad for drinking contaminated water.
He had appealed the Chief Justice to take notice of this alarming situation and save human lives.
In another appeal published in a newspaper from a lady Shah Jehan of Rawalpindi Cantt, the Chief Justice has ordered to forward the case to Legal Committee of Pakistan Bar Council through its Chairman.
He has also directed to send a copy of the same to Punjab Government for co-operating with the Legal Aid Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council for appropriate action and submit report in this case before July 17, 2006, in his chamber.
The appellant Begum Shah Jehan had stated in her appeal that her son, who is a graduate, was acquitted in a death case by Additional Sessions Judge, Rawalpindi but despite the decision the jail authorities have not so far released her son.
In another case of violation of the relevant law banning service of meals on the occasion of marriage, the Chief Justice has directed the District & Sessions Judge, Talagang to furnish inquiry report before July 14, 2006, in an event at Talagang in which allegedly Nazim of Union Council No 46, Talagang was involved.