Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad has contacted President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez, expressing concern over the reports that the government dropped murder charges against the owners of a Baldia Town factory where fire killed over 250 people in the country’s worst industrial fire incident.

The president assured the governor that all the requisites of justice would be met during the course of investigation into the incident.
The governor requested the prime minister that all the constitutional and legal requisites should be implemented so that justice could be provided to the victims.

He said that a case lodged against the owners of the factory under section 302 (premeditated murder) should not be withdrawn.Moreover, the governor also directed the IG Sindh Police to give the charge of the case to an officer who had also been probing the case.

Ebad made contacts shortly after Minister of State for Finance, Salim Mandviwala Wednesday disclosed that the case registered against the owners of Baldia Town factory had been withdrawn following the directives by the prime minister .