Torture of students: LHC CJ orders registration of cases against police

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LAHORE:?Chief Justice Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Ijaz Ahmad Sheikh on Monday ordered?registration of cases?against police personnel involved in the torture?of students outside the Punjab Assembly.

The Chief Justice summoned the secretary education on Tuesday in this regard.

During the hearing of the suo motu case, the government lawyer pleaded that the teachers are protesting against the board of governors?because they run private academies. He assured, on behalf of the Punjab government, that the fee will not increase after the board of governors are established.

Representatives of the Teachers Association said they will not protest if the government does not increase the fee.

The court has also summoned a record of private education institutions.

Protests in Faisalabad

Teachers in Faisalabad have boycotted educational activities for an indefinite period, in protest against the formation of a board of governors.

Students are facing difficulties due to the boycott as the college entry test has also been postponed.

Teachers and students also demonstrated on Sargodha Road where they said that the Punjab government is using delaying tactics in this regard.

They reiterated that they will not accept the formation of a board of governors and the boycott will continue till the acceptance of their demands.

Meanwhile, the administration has deployed police personnel outside all the colleges.

PML-Q condemns privatisation

Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q) Chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain condemned the decision of the Punjab government’s decision to form a board of governors for educational institutions.

Talking to the media at his residence in Lahore, Shujaat said his party will support students and teachers in this issue.

He alleged that the only purpose of forming a board of governors is to entertain a few people.

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Rental power plants: SC orders company to return advance payments

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said the judiciary will not allow people to waste the nation's wealth. PHOTO: EPA

ISLAMABAD:?Walters International Power Company, accused of relocating the machinery of Guddu Power Plant to Naudero-2 Power Plant, agreed on Wednesday to return Rs2 billion to the government of Pakistan.

Chief Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar was hearing the rental power projects fraud case after taking suo moto notice of the irregularities in payments based on a report published in The Express Tribune.

The Supreme Court ordered the company to return the?advance, which is worth millions of dollars, within 24 hours and the hearing of the case has been adjourned till December 14.

The case surfaced when NEPRA came to know that Walters?International had relocated the machinery of Guddu Power Plant to Naudero-2 Power Plant. The company took an advance on the same machinery, twice.

The company’s lawyer Barrister Shahid Hamid says?that the advance money will be returned.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: December 8, 2010

The company Walters International Power Limited was misspelt as Valters International in an earlier version of the article.

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