• Secretary Pakistan Awami Tehreek Khurram Nawaz Gandapur, provincial ministers and law secretary also participated in the meeting.
• Punjab CM said the demands of justice in the model town case would be fulfilled.
• Justice would be served to the affectees of Model Town incident, come what may, he said.

LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to form a joint investigation team (JIT) on Model Town tragedy, Bol News reported on Saturday.

A high level meeting chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi took this decision after reviewing the Model Town case. Secretary Pakistan Awami Tehreek Khurram Nawaz Gandapur, provincial ministers and law secretary also participated in the meeting.

Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said a decision would be taken to form a JIT in the light of court orders.

He said the demands of justice in the case would be fulfilled. Justice would be served to the affectees of Model Town incident, come what may, he said.

“By fulfilling the responsibility of justice in the tragedy, we will be successful before Allah (SWT) and the people,” Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said.

On July 2, an anti-terrorism court had acquitted 12 workers of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) in 2014 Model Town incident.

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Faisal Town police had registered an FIR against the workers on charges of attacking police personnel and other government officials.

PAT’s counsel Naeemuddin Chaudhry had argued before the court that the petitioners were not nominated in the FIR and the police arrested them two months after the incident when they came to attend chehlum of the workers who lost their lives due to police firing.

He had said the prosecution failed to produce any evidence during trial proceedings to prove its charges against the petitioners. He had said the police registered a fabricated FIR against the petitioners at the behest of the then government. He had asked the court to acquit the petitioners of the charges.

After hearing the arguments of the counsel, the court had allowed the acquittal applications of the petitioners and acquitted them of the charges for lack of evidence.