Protest: ‘Why are lower courts ignored’

Hundreds of protestors including, stenographers, readers and record keepers assemble outside district bar.


Obaid Abbasi February 01, 2011

RAWALPINDI: The staff of district courts on Monday staged a protest demonstration for increase in their salaries.

Hundreds of protestors including, stenographers, readers and record keepers assembled outside the district bar and chanted slogans pressing for their demands. They also boycotted the courts proceeding for one hour.

They said their salaries had not been increased for the past three years. “On the other hand, the salaries of the staff of high courts has been tripled,” said Ahmed.

They said that in 2008, government increased the pay for the staff of high courts including the judges and their subordinates, but the lower judiciary was ignored.

“This discriminatory attitude towards the staff of lower courts is extremely unfair,” said one of the stenographer.

Another reader of an additional district and sessions judge while talking to The Express Tribune said that government has once again decided to bring a 50 per cent raise in the salaries of high court staff in the last budget. They urged the government to bail them out in the wake of high inflation in the country.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 1st,  2011.

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