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Writ filed in SC against Rangers:
Occupation of welfare centre
ISLAMABAD, May 8: The Supreme Court was requested on Thursday to
issue an order to get a centre for the welfare of mentally retarded
and physically handicapped children in Lahore vacated from illegal
occupation of Punjab Rangers.
Ms Attia Ahmed, president of the Life Welfare Society, Lahore, has
moved the Supreme Court through her lawyer Nawab Saeedullah Khan,
making the federal government, the Punjab government,
director-general of Rangers, Lahore, Brig Qaisar Tareen, Col Ghulam
Jaffar and Col Tariq Sheikh and UC 57 Nazim Malik Shaukat
respondents in the petition.
The petitioner said that she and her husband Dr Ejaz Ahmad were
running the registered welfare centre consisting of eight kanals of
land allotted by the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) for
handicapped children, where 50 children were residing permanently
and 120 children were getting vocational training.
In 2001, she said, the then director general of Punjab Rangers
started paying Rs15,000 a month to the centre for its improvement,
which was later carried out by the next General Hussain Mehdi.
Later, some high-ranking officials of the Punjab Rangers, she
stated, including both the directors-general as well as Brig Qaisar
Tareen, Col Ghulam Jaffar and Col Tariq Sheikh with alleged
connivance of UC 57 Nazim Malik Shaukat got an account opened with
the ABN Amro Bank in Defence, Lahore, in the name of the Life
Welfare Society and allegedly misappropriated Rs50 million.
She said that when she and her husband, along with disabled
students, staged a protest outside the Lahore Press Club and
approached police, senior officers of the Rangers got bogus cases
registered against them and threatened them with dire consequences.
Later, the Rangers’ officials occupied the centre and threw them as
well as children out of the centre. She prayed to the court to take
notice of the matter and order recovery of Rs50 million from
Rangers’ officials. She also prayed to the court to get the centre
vacated from illegal occupation of Rangers.
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