{"id":25577,"date":"2023-11-17T16:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/dha-accident-case-lhc-orders-crackdown-on-drivers-without-licence\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T16:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:24:05","slug":"dha-accident-case-lhc-orders-crackdown-on-drivers-without-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/dha-accident-case-lhc-orders-crackdown-on-drivers-without-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"DHA accident case: LHC orders crackdown on drivers without licence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday directed city authorities to crackdown on motorists without a driving licence.<\/p>\n

The court issued the directives while hearing a petition filed by a suspect involved in the deaths of six members of a family in a road accident.<\/p>\n

Six members of a family, including two minor children, were killed<\/a> in a fatal road accident in the Lahore\u2019s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on Sunday. Police said a speeding car driven by a teenage boy led to the accident, which claimed the lives of six members of a family who were going back to their home after meeting their relatives.<\/p>\n

Police lodged a case against the driver, teenager Afnan Shafqat, on the complaint of head of the family, Rafaqat Ali, who was traveling in another car at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, police also added<\/a> terrorism and murder charges to the first information report (FIR) against the suspect. Rafaqat had alleged that the suspect was not alone when he \u201cdeliberately\u201d hit his family\u2019s car.<\/p>\n

Kahna Circle DSP Raja Fakhar told Dawn<\/em> on Thursday that according to Rafaqat , the suspect had allegedly harassed the female members of his family [prior to the incident] when they were going back to their home after meeting a close relative.<\/p>\n

During today\u2019s hearing, Lahore Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Capt (retd) Mustansir Feroz and Acting SSP Operations (Lahore) Furqan Bilal appeared in line with the previous directives issued by the court.<\/p>\n

At the outset of the hearing, Justice Ali Zia Bajwa termed the car accident a \u201cvery sad event\u201d. He observed that if there were a million cars on the roads, only 0.2 motorists had licences.<\/p>\n

At this, the Lahore CTO informed the court that according to the records, there were 7.3m cars but only 1.3m motorists had licences.<\/p>\n

The judge then asked the officials what action the had police taken against unlicensed drivers. \u201cWhat action was taken after the (aforementioned) incident took place?\u201d Justice Bajwa asked.<\/p>\n

At this, CTO Feroz told the judge that a crackdown was under way against underage and unlicensed drivers for the past three days.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone is stopped by the traffic police, the person says he is a lawyer or the son of a judge, or related to the SSP,\u201d the judge remarked. \u201cAction against them should be non-discriminatory,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n

Justice Bajwa said that such incidents were more prevalent in the city\u2019s posh areas. \u201cWhat action are you taking against people who allow minor children to drive cars?\u201d he asked the CTO.<\/p>\n

At this, the traffic officer said that there was a law in place and action was taken against such people. He said 999 cases had been registered against motorists diving vehicle without a licence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose driving without a licence should be arrested,\u201d the judge said as he order the officials to crackdown on such individuals. \u201cNo one should come onto the roads without a licence,\u201d the judge directed, ordering the officials to take indiscriminate action in this regard.<\/p>\n

At one point, the suspect\u2019s lawyer Advocate Irfan Hayat urged the court to provide legal protection for his client. The counsel informed the court that terrorism provisions had been added to the FIR against the suspect.<\/p>\n

The court sought a response from the Lahore police on the suspect\u2019s petition. The court also issued notices to the excise department and directed the CTO and SSP operations to submit detailed reports at the next hearing.<\/p>\n

The court order issued after the hearing, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com<\/em>, said, \u201cA motor vehicle driven by a person having no driver\u2019s licence is a \u2018killing machine\u2019 on the road and such driver is a \u2018killer on the road\u2019 and there is a mandatory duty on the quarters concerned to prevent such illegality.\u201d<\/p>\n

The order said that saving the life of citizens was the state\u2019s duty and any \u201cslackness\u201d in this regard would amount to violating the \u201cconstitutional and statutory mandate\u201d.<\/p>\n

The order noted the figures quoted by the Lahore CTO about the number of licensed drivers, saying: \u201cIt is an alarming state of affairs which persuades this court to issue a direction to the quarters concerned to immediately prevent such a glaring illegality.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, it said that no citizen should be unduly harassed under the guise of such action. It also sought a report from the Motor Vehicle Registration Authority regarding the procedure and conditions of registering a motor vehicle. The hearing was adjourned till November 21.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday directed city authorities to crackdown on motorists without a driving licence. The court issued the directives while hearing a petition filed by a suspect involved in the deaths of six members of a family in a road accident. Six members of a family, including two minor children, were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/11\/17190423fa0b16f.jpg?r=190706","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}