Daily Times

Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar Monday took suo motu notice of death of two minor siblings in Karachi due to alleged food poisoning earlier this month, a private TV channel reported.

Two siblings, 18-month-old Ahmed and five-year-old Muhammad, died from a suspected case of food poisoning on November 11 after dining out with their mother at a local eatery. The incident triggered a police investigation into the case and resulted in the sealing of the restaurant in question.

Taking suo motu notice of the matter, the chief justice sought a report from the Sindh government in two days.

During a raid on a tip-off last week, the Sindh Food Authority also recovered expired meat from the godown of the eatery located in the upscale Zamzama neighborhood of Karachi. The authority found meat that had expired back in 2015, and was said to have a rotting stench to it.

Sindh Food Authority Director Abrar Sheikh told the media that the eatery’s management had earlier failed to disclose the existence of the godown where the expired meat was found from. A first information report had been filed two days after the siblings’ death. The case included clauses of murder without an apparent motive and poisoning, he added.

Published in Daily Times, November 20^th 2018.