Precaution: Security at all AJK courts enhanced

Move comes in wake of Islamabad katcheri attack.

MUZAFFARABAD:

Following the attack on the Islamabad district courts, Azad Jammu and Kashmir Supreme Court Chief Justice Muhammad Azam Khan presided over the meeting in Mirpur to enhance security around all courts in the state.

It was decided that to enhance checking at the main entry points of the High Court (HC) and Supreme Court (SC), while special stickers with Mirpur Bar Association secretary general’s emblem would be issued to practicing lawyers so that they may park in the court premises.

The lawyers community and district administrations agreed to close all the main gates of the judicial complex and allow enhanced checking of all people including lawyers before entry.

To ensure proper security arrangements stay in place, a sub-committee has been formed. The committee would be headed by the Mirpur deputy commissioner and will submit a report to CJ Khan within a week.

The meeting was also attended by High Court judge Munir Ahmad Chaudhry, Mirpur Commissioner Zahoorul Hassan Geelani, Deputy Inspector General of the Mirpur Division Police Sardar Gulfaraz and Mirpur District Bar Association President Khalid Rashid.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 9^th, 2014.