ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court resumed hearing on Thursday the Islamabad sit-in case.
Officials of police, Intelligence Bureau, and Inter Services Intelligence submitted reports over the Faizabad sit-in.
The deputy attorney general submitted the reports on behalf of the intelligence agencies. When asked about the casualties in the protest, he added that there were no deaths in the incident and 173 policemen were injured in the incident.
During the hearing, Justice Qazi Faez Isa remarked that they did not take a suo motu notice over one city and asked for details of the incident to be furnished in court.
The deputy attorney general informed the bench that they have received unsigned documents from the Punjab government regarding the losses incurred during the sit-in. He shared that according to this report, the losses incurred stand at Rs146 million.
Justice Isa then remarked where Islam permits damaging public and private property?
On November 21, Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Isa had taken notice of the Islamabad protest sit-in while hearing a separate case.
On Wednesday, Islamabad Inspector General Khalid Khattak submitted a nine-page report to the apex court with regard to the hearing.
The report stated that the police, which had been deployed since 20 days, had reached the point of exhaustion by the time the order for the operation was given.
