A meeting of the lawyers took place on Friday at the Quaid-e-Azam Hall of the district bar association to protest the arrest of a former president of the bar.
Bilal Ashraf Basra had been arrested late on Thursday night.
After the meeting,
the lawyers took out a protest rally.
The rally marched towards the commissioner's office and pelted it with stones.
Police fired teargas shells to disperse the protestors.
The rally later encircled the office of the CPO, damaging its main gate.
The meeting of the district lawyers also condemned the damage caused to the committee room and the alleged assault on the Secretary of the Bar Association, Rana Babar Khan.
The meeting urged the district and sessions judge to order the police to present Bilal Ashraf Basra before the court.
They also urged the judge to take action against what they alleged “police lawlessness and hooliganism”.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 13th, 2023.
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