Justice Sidhu observes that Mubashar was solely responsible for the misbehaviour and not the inspector. PHOTO: LHC.GOV.PK
The Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed the chief traffic officer to suspend a warden and take action against him for misbehaving with a judge of the Lahore High Court.
Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu visited the licensing branch of the CTO’s office on Monday to get a driving licence. The judge said that Mubashar, a warden, had misbehaved with him.
CTO Sohail Chaudhry and Warden Mubashar appeared before Justice Sidhu on Tuesday. The CTO said official protocol had been arranged for the judge at the main entrance but the judge had used another gate. The officer had misbehaved due to a misunderstanding. He said Inspector Ahsan Gondal had been suspended for this, he said.
Justice Sidhu observed that Mubashar was solely responsible for the misbehaviour and not the inspector. The judge directed the CTO to take action against the warden and submit a report on Wednesday (today).
Published in The Express Tribune, March 12th, 2014.
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the judge should be commended for not following protocol junk. he has punished the abusive warden correctly.
So this is what the lawyer's movement was all about. Why can't judges behave like ordinary citizens, this practice will go a long way in setting things in order for the common citizen because it will give them a first hand experience of how people struggle to get their rights? In this case, the learned judge had forewarned his arrival but entered from a different gate. He was, therefore, given the treatment reserved for the common man. Rather than taking advantage of this first hand experience with the purpose of improving the system for the ordinary people, the judge took it as a personal offence his ego was bruised something had to be done to redeem his honor. Those involved in not deferring to his inflated ego have been hauled over burning coal but there's been no word in support of the ordinary Pakistanis who live through ordeal on a daily basis. This is the legacy of the former CJP Iftikhar Chaudary that dominates the minds of these men of straw. I wonder whether the learned High Court judge ever heard of the humility of Justice Cornelius, a former CJP and truly learned judge.