Punjab Law Minister Rana Mashhood said on Sunday that legal opinion has been sought for establishing a new Joint Inspection Team (JIT) on the Model Town incident. He said the investigation of Model Town incident would be done on merit and people responsible for the incident would be punished.
The Law Minister said that the new FIR was lodged on the demand of the people who were sitting in 'dharna' at Islamabad. He said that on their demand sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act were added in the FIR. He said now the new JIT would be established for which "we are working as per law requirements".
The Punjab Law Minister said that those whose names were mentioned in the FIR of Model Town incident have a right to defend themselves according to requirements of law and there was no justification in asking for their resignations at this stage.
Rana Mashhood averred that recent floods have made huge devastation and in addition of personal visits of the Punjab chief minister, 17 Punjab ministers of his cabinet were present in the affected areas.
He disclosed that they would observe September 10 this year as day for youth and minorities.