A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday barred an anti-terrorism court in Faisalabad from concluding the trial of police officials accused of setting protesting lawyers on fire in Sahiwal in 2007 and summoned the record of the case for today.
The bench had been petitioned by the defendants to allow them to cross-examine afresh the complainant in the case, then Sahiwal Bar Association president Usman Sheikh, after the trial court refused to allow them to do so.
The bench headed by Justice Shahid Hameed Dar stayed the trial court proceedings and summoned the case record. On May 4, 2007, lawyers protesting for the restoration of the Supreme Court chief justice conducted a torch-bearing procession in Sahiwal. The complainants say the police sprayed the protestors with oil and then baton-charged them, causing serious burn injuries to at least 12 lawyers.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2011.
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