LHC to hear plea seeking judicial commission to probe PTI worker Zille Shah's death.

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday fixed for hearing a petition seeking the formation of a judicial commission to probe the death of PTI worker Zille Shah.

The registrar's office listed the petition for a hearing on Tuesday (tomorrow) under the lordship of Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza.

Former prime minister Imran Khan over the weekend had accused the Punjab caretaker government of covering up PTI worker Ali Bilal's death and urged the LHC to constitute a judicial commission to probe the matter. 'I request Punjab's chief justice to form a judicial commission on this matter today and investigate what happened with him (Bilal),' the PTI chief had said, adding that he had no hope from the government.

The petition submitted today, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, by Advocate Shahbaz Akmal Jandran through Advocate Nadeem Sarwar was filed under Article 199(1) (jurisdiction of high court) of the Constitution and mentioned Punjab caretaker chief minister Mohsin Naqvi, Punjab Chief Secretary Zahid Akhtar Zaman, Punjab Inspector General (IG) of Police Dr Usman Anwar, Lahore Capital City Police Officer Bilal Saddique Kamyana and Lahore Deputy Commissioner Rafia Haider as respondents in the case.

It said that Bilal was 'killed, his broken, tormented body abandoned at the Services Hospital in Lahore'.

'The preliminary post-mortem report shows more blunt force trauma injures than one can count and even then his family has no hope of getting justice,' it highlighted. 'He was picked up by police from Zaman Park along with other PTI activists during the party's abortive attempt to launch an election campaign and was last videoed alive as he was being driven away in a police van'.

Narrating the developments in the matter since, the petition argued that the IG had termed the death an accident 'while the post-mortem report speaks something else which makes the case of Zille Shah more suspicious', adding that therefore the matter needed a 'judicial probe so that like a civilised nation we hold accountable to official, leader and person involved in killing of innocent citizen'.

'Since the matter is of great public importance, therefore, it is high time to form a tribunal, commission or committee of inquiry into matter of definite matter of public importance under The Punjab tribunal of Inquiry ordinance, 1969 in order to save the citizens of Pakistan from being victim of barbarism and...