Islamabad (March 26, 2018): The Chief Justice of Pakistan on Monday summoned the lawmakers of the Okara constituency-whose photo of a funeral procession passing over the sewage went viral and the chief justice took suo moto notice over it- on March 29.
Those who were summoned included the MNA Rao Ajmal and MPA Raza Ali Gillani. The chief justice also summoned all the municipal committee members of Hujra Shah Muqeem, a small town in Okara. 
Hearing the suo motu case today, a three-member bench led by the chief justice heard the town’s councillor, who said the exact location of the picture has been identified and that he was a part of the funeral procession.
The chief justice observed that they have to tell people they are working for their benefit. 
During the hearing, Chief Justice Nisar regretted that the clothes of those passing through sewage would have been ruined and wondered how they would have offered funeral prayers in dirty clothes.
The councillor informed the apex court of several other municipal issues of the town, after which the chief justice summoned the entire municipal committee and its chairman, who hails from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, on March 29.
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