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LAHORE:
A petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking a criminal case against responsible officers over six deaths and injuries to 124 citizens during the Basant celebrations.
The petition, submitted by the head of the Judicial Activism Panel, Azhar Siddique, states that according to the Punjab Home Ministry’s official data, six people lost their lives and 124 others were injured, contradicting the government’s claims of a “safe basant”.
The petitioner alleged that Basant has become a deadly menace rather than a celebration, with scores of children injured after falling from rooftops or while climbing electricity poles.
