Media protest against fake case
LAHORE: A large number of media persons staged a phased sit-in outside the Punjab Assembly building and CCPO’s to protest against the local police for implicating more than 12 journalists in a fake case of robbery and kidnapping.
The journalists chanted slogans against the Punjab Government, offered collective arrests and demanded suspension of Harbanspura DSP and SHO for registering the fake case against the senior members of the Lahore Press Club.
Officebearers of the Lahore Press Club and Punjab Union of Journalists, on this occasion, said that the Harbanspura police had registered the case against the journalists on the directions of CCPO Ahmed Raza Tahir and DIG (Operations) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar.
They also said the police and PML-N MPAs were protecting the land grabbers by registering fake criminal cases against the journalists.
They said that the police are reluctant to arrest those, who attacked the journalists and tried to occupy their residential plots in Journalist Housing Society. They said that the City police are targeting the journalists in a planned way.
They further said that the journalists are being victimised by the Punjab government for holding a meeting with the prime Minister of Pakistan.
The journalists also chanted full-throat slogans against the Punjab government, PML-N and Lahore police for registering fake robbery cases them, demanding the authorities to immediately quash the fake FIR. They also announced that the journalist community would hold a sit-in outside the Chief Minister’s Secretariat on Wednesday (today) at 5:00 pm and countrywide protest demonstrations would also be held in this regard.
It is worth mentioning here that the police registered a case against 12 members of Lahore Press Club including former Secretary Zia Ullah Khan Niazi, Muzammal Gujjar and Rana Ghulam Sarwar.
Source: The Nation
Date:7/13/2011
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