Extra-judicial killings ‘worst form of violation’ of Constitution: Justice Minallah

Extra-judicial killings ‘worst form of violation’ of Constitution: Justice Minallah

Supreme Court judge Justice Athar Minallah on Friday termed extra-judicial killings, custodial torture and the excessive use of force as the most “intolerable crimes” in a democratic society, calling them the “worst form of violation” of the Constitution. In his dissenting note on the court’s judgement issued in a case pertaining to the killing of Mohammad Hayat Mirza, a Karachi University student, in Turbat, Justice Minallah said that there can…