{"id":14754,"date":"2026-04-13T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=14754"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:20:11","slug":"lahore-high-court-hears-petitions-against-kite-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=14754","title":{"rendered":"Lahore High Court hears petitions against kite flying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LAHORE: A bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) while hearing petitions against kite flying on Monday summoned details of cases against offenders violated prohibition of kite flying.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A single bench of the high court, comprises of Justice Awais Khalid, heard petitions filed by the lawyers\u2019 Judicial Activism Panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to kites and twine seized by police, if they were burnt or disposed off some other way,\u201d the court questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat mechanism followed with regard to the rates of kites and thread,\u201d bench further asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court also demanded complete details of deaths and injuries caused by kite flying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Court directed the authorities to take steps for preventing mishaps related to kite flying in future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The high court bench adjourned further hearing of the case until April 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Punjab Home Department earlier informed the LHC that at least 17 people lost their lives during the three-day Basant festival held in Lahore from February 6 to 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A provincial Home Department official submitted a detailed report to the court outlining the loss of life during the celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, the victims died due to electrocution and falling from rooftops and trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court was hearing petitions seeking details of the damages and expenditures incurred during the Basant festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the proceedings, the petitioner\u2019s counsel argued that the report failed to disclose the number of people who died after being injured by kite strings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) while hearing petitions against kite flying on Monday summoned details of cases against offenders violated prohibition of kite flying. A single bench of the high court, comprises of Justice Awais Khalid, heard petitions filed by the lawyers\u2019 Judicial Activism Panel. \u201cWhat happened to kites and twine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875","service":"facebook","timestamp":1776086428,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pakistan"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14756,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions\/14756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}