Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 199

Constitution of Pakistan, 1973-- ----Art. 199--Incident occurred at Keenjhar Lake--Many persons were drowned--Lack of proper safety measures--No SOPs, were formulated--Issuance of directions by High Court to impromised safety and security measures--Submission of report by District and Sessions Judge after visiting Keenghar Lake--Arrangement of same better facilities for tourists at Keenjhar Lake--Direction to--The District ,  Sessions Judge, Thatta submitted his report on which shows that some positive efforts in compliance of order of this were made for public safety with arrangement of some better facilities for tourists at Keenjhar Lake--Directions given by High Court from time to time in order to make necessary provisions and availability of facilities in public interest for safety of tourists at Keenjhar Lake have been seemingly complied with to avoid any future incident this petition is disposed of with directions to Managing Director, STDC, DC, Thatta and SSP to ensure strict compliance with regard to all safety measures religiously--Petition disposed of. ORDER Muhammad Ali Mazhar, J.--The petitioners in person have brought this petition in the larger public interest. During pendency of this petition an untoward incident occurred at Keenjhar Lake where many persons drowned during boat ride due to lack of proper safety measures while allowing boats to operate commercially for tourists. It was averred by the petitioners that according to Boat Rules, 1953 no licensed boat shall carry a greater number of passengers than the number allowed by its license or under these Rules. He complained that two serious incidents occurred including the incident of 17.08.2020 but no SOP has been formulated so far while many innocent persons have lost their lives. Keeping in mind the sensitivity and importance of the matter, we issued notices to Deputy Commissioner Thatta and SSP Thatta to appear in person. The SSP submitted comments along with some documents. The learned AAG submitted that on 24.05.2019, SOP was made for the safety and security arrangements by STDC at Keenjhar Lake but what we noted that despite formulation of SOP, a drowning incident happened on…

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