Davis case: foreign ministry seeks more time, adjourned till Mar 14

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday put off till March 14 the hearing of assorted identical petitions next to possible handing over of Raymond Davis to the US after a deputy attorney general sought after time to file foreign ministry answer in the matter.

Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayet Malik come into view on behalf of federal government and informed the court that the name of Raymond Davis had been positioned on Exit Control List and all the concerned had been inform in this regard.

He asks for the court to grant three weeks time to file the foreign ministry reply.

"As the deputy attorney general has ask for three weeks to present a reply on the status of Raymond Davis, the case is adjourned until March 14," Lahore high court chief justice Ijaz Mohammad Chaudhry said.

The LHC began hearing to make a decision if Raymond Davis has diplomatic immunity, in a case that has threadbare ties between the cautious associates.

The court had given the foreign ministry 15 days to answer on whether full diplomatic status was held by Raymond Davis, who has been remanded in care since his capture following the incident on January 27.

Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said Davis does not have full diplomatic status, while the ministry in a declaration Wednesday dismissed media conjecture that it had already long-established the US man's right to immunity.