The Constitutional Bank of the Super Court of Sindh ordered the Karachi Traffic Police to take measures against beggars in the city’s traffic signs, emerged on Wednesday.
A total of 205 professional beggars were arrested through Karachi from March to October last year while the city administration continued its offensive against organized begging.
The Constitutional Bank presided over a hearing a day ago in a request presented by Sumaira Mohammadi on the issue of begging. The Constitutional Bank of Nine SHC members was headed by Judge Muhammad Karim Khan Agha and included Judges Salim Jessar, Omar Sial, Yousaf Ali Sayeed, Abdul Mobeen Lakho, Zulfikar Ali Sangi, Heal Akram Minhas, Khadim Hussain Soomro and Arbab Ali Hakro.
According to the court order, dated January 28 and a copy of which it is available with Dawn.comThe main complaint of the petition was that “certain transgender people are asking for traffic lights and other public places and causing discomfort and harassment to [the] general public. “
The Bank ordered the inspector General of the Traffic Police (PGI) to make sure that a karachi begs for someone, be it men, women, children or transgender. “
The request of the petitioner was subsequently eliminated.
Sindh IG GHULAM NABI MEMON said Dawn.com that all possible efforts would be made to eliminate the “threat of begging” under the relevant laws.
He said that the Traffic Police had the order to take measures against beggars despite the fact that the main function of force was the soft regulation of traffic, with limited resources at their disposal.
Memon said that effective actions against beggars required the coordination of all interested parties. He said that the Superior Court had given its order and that the police would implement it, but it was a temporary solution.
The Sindh IG said that the coordination between the Social Welfare Department, the Child Protection Authority and the NGOs that work on the issue would be necessary for effective action.
A similar order was issued by a Karachi session court in May last year, in which he ordered the city chief to reactivate the police anti-benefit unit.
He also ordered that measures be taken against professional beggars at traffic intersections and other public spaces in the metropolis.
The authorities were put into action last August when they began the vigilant projection of the passengers traveling to the Middle East states amid the growing discontent over the greatest number of Pakistani involved in begging.
In November, Interior Minister Mohsin Raza Naqvi informed the Minister of the Saudi Deputy that the names of around 4,300 beggars were placed on the output control list as a zero tolerance policy that had been adopted against the beggars that They went to Saudi Arabia.