KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the commissioner of Karachi to continue operation against billboards and signboards in the city after he furnished a report about their removal. The commissioner furnished a report a day after the SC had ordered him to remove the billboards and signboards which caused injuries to people after they fell in strong winds recently.

A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Justice Gulzar Ahmed, ordered destroying of the entire structure of the billboards when Karachi commissioner told the court that 300 billboards had been removed from the District South of the city in one day since the issuance of orders.

During the hearing at the Karachi Registry of the court, the accused involved in billboards falling were presented in the court. The Chief Justice asked them why they did things that caused injuries to the people. If a person had been killed in the incident in which billboards fell on the people, then a murder case would have been registered, and those responsible would have been hanged, the Chief Justice remarked and stated that TV advertisements were enough for promotion of products.

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