 At a conference of the Central Ministers and representatives of West Pakistan Provinces held in the early hours of the morning of 27 February it was decided to reject the ultimatum and to arrest the prominent members of Majlis-e-Amal in Karachi and some leaders of the movement in the Punjab.The disturbances commenced immediately after, and as a direct result of, these arrests.On 19 June 1953, the Governor of the Punjab promulgated Ordinance III of 1953 which, with certain amendments suggested by Muhammad Munir and Malik Rustam Kayani, became the "Punjab Disturbances (Public Inquiry) Act", 1953, Punjab Act II of 1954, directing the setting up of a Court for holding a public inquiry into the disturbances.