A two-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar heard a suo moto case about the delay in dispensation of justice to the victims of the Model Town incident at Supreme Court Lahore registry on Saturday.
Prosecutor General Punjab Ehtesham Qadir submitted the record of the Model Town incident case in the court.
The court ordered Anti-Terrorism Court Judge, hearing Model Town incident case, to hold proceedings of the case on daily basis.
Earlier this year the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan took suo moto notice of police encounters conducted by Punjab police during the hearing of security barricades case in Lahore.
Three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar is hearing the case.
Chief Justice ordered Inspector General (IG) Punjab Police Arif Nawaz to submit report on police encounters by Punjab police within a week.
"Court wants to know how many have you killed," remarked Chief Justice.
IG police requested the court to extend the deadline from one week but chief justice rejected it stating IG should know on the fingertips that how many persons have been killed by the force.
While responding the development Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Fawad Chaudhary welcomed it. He claimed that 137 people have been killed only in Kasur in police encounters.
Earlier, PTI chairman Imran Khan also blamed Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif of carrying out his "dirty work" through Punjab police.
By the end of 2017, the Model Town inquiry tribunal report was made public. The tribunal report put blame particularly on Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and the Punjab Police for the fatal shooting.
The inquiry tribunal, headed by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi of the Lahore High Court, had submitted the 132-page report in 2014 but the Punjab government did not make it public. However, the report was made public in December 2017 on the court order.
