The court passed this order while setting aside order of additional sessions judge who declined to order registration of a criminal case against officials of rescue 1122 and imposed a fine of Rs 10000 on the petitioner Khalid Masood advocate.
The petitioner contended that three months ago, an incident took place in Kot Radha Kishen area when an overloaded van slipped into a drain and passengers were trapped inside. Contingent of Rescue 1122 quickly reached there and started rescue efforts but the people gathered there were shocked to notice that crane was not capable of even move the van which had the lifting capacity of more than 5 tonnes. Eventually, the petitioner and other locals helped passengers extricate from the van.
Petitioner therefore, went to director general rescue 1122 to register his complaint but he turned a deaf ear to his complaint. He said he himself probed into the matter and found out that service had acquired 12 such cranes and all were much below the specification mentioned in tender notice.
These were purchased from a firm called Ahmed Medix which was not permitted to manufacture crane under memorandum of association. Counsel for Ahmed Medix pleaded that petitioner's allegations were baseless and frivolous as the whole process of purchase was totally transparent and the sloe purpose of petitioner was just to harass it and DG rescue 1122.