LAHORE: Justice Shams Mahmood Mirza of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday explained that the court had stopped the Punjab government from taking coercive measures against private schools and not from implementing the law (Punjab Private Educational Institutions and Regulations (Amendment) Ordinance 2015).

The judge was hearing a petition filed by Judicial Activism Panel and Civil Society Network challenging a stay orderissued infavour of the private schools against implementation of the law on their fee structure.

Representing the petition, Advocate Azhar Siddique told the court that the private schools were not following the law and taking undue shelter behind the stay order by misinterpreting it.

He pointed out that the schools were not decreasing the fees as received till 2014.

Justice Mirza observed that the court had not granted stay to the private schools against decreasing the fee but against the coercive measures allegedly tal
WITHDRAWS BAIL PLEA: A man booked for selling unwholesome meat has withdrawn his bail petition from the Lahore High Court after police recommended cancellation of FIR.

Punjab Food Authority (PFA) had seized a large amount of unwholesome meat during a raid conducted near Lahore Railway Station and arrested Muhammad Ashfaq.

Naulakha police had registered an FIR against him and the authority sent the seized meat to laboratory for examination.

Suspect`s counsel told the court that the meat seized by the PFA was neither of pork`s nor prohibited. The suspected meat was in fact `pancreas` of different animals to be used by leather factories, he said and added a report for the cancellation of the FIR had been submitted before the trial court.

The counsel told the court that the petitioner wanted to withdraw the bail. The court disposed of the petition as withdrawn.