Baton charge, detention: YDA demands judicial inquiry

Police officials had beaten up doctors, “male and female”, without provocation, says YDA counsel.

LAHORE:

The Young Doctors’ Association Punjab has filed a writ petition in the Lahore High Court, asking that the court take action against authorities who “tortured” doctors and detained them for eight hours.

YDA counsel Advocate Noshab A Khan submitted that police “at the behest of Punjab government” had uprooted their protest camp outside Services Hospital on Sunday. Police officials had beaten up doctors, “male and female”, without provocation. He said many of the doctors had been seriously injured and had to be admitted to hospital. The police also arrested a number of doctors and kept them in illegal detention at North Cantonment police station for eight hours, Advocate Khan added. He prayed that a judicial inquiry be ordered into the incident.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 12^th, 2013.