Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif here on Monday adjourned a suo motu hearing to June 22 into the killing of a woman and her three children in Sadar Berooni Rawalpindi in June 2007 and gave three weeks time to the investigating officer for the arrest of the accused.
After going through a report submitted by the City Police Officer of Rawalpindi, Justice Sharif observed that "no clue of the accused has been brought on the record" and that it has been submitted by the CPO that the investigating officer has been directed to trace out the accused.
The suo motu action was taken over the killing of Zahida Parveen and her three children M Usman (five), Iraj (seven) and M Zubair (12). According to the details woman's husband, M Naseem, a bank guard, came home from work and found his three children murdered and his wife in critical condition. She succumbed to her injuries four days later.