Police have registered cases against 150 lawyers under the Anti Terrorism Act for beating up and torturing police personnel in public places in Quetta.
Additionally, the Anti-terrorism court has granted a four-day remand of two lawyers who are in police custody for manhandling police personnel on Jinnah Road. Advocates Askar Achakzai and Naseebullah Tareen were arrested late Wednesday night.
“As many as 24 lawyers have been identified in videos obtained from the media outlets and police have mounted a search for their arrest,” city police chief Abdul Razzaq Cheema told The Express Tribune.
The lawyers, as a protest, have boycotted court proceedings against ‘the police’s behaviour’. The lawyers on the other hand claim that the police had beaten up a lawyer near the City Court on Wednesday.
The Quetta police chief said the force will carry out raids for the arrest of lawyers. “The police are taking legal action and everyone watched it live after news channel aired the story. The lawyers publicly battered police personnel, which falls under serious offences covered by the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 25th, 2014.
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Lawyers are totally at fault. One of the Lawyer wanted to crash the gate from opposite direction & when police guard stopped him, he slapped the police man, created fuss, collected his colleagues, block the roads, pelted stones on cars. With Judiciary accessible to them, they care two hoots for rule of Law ,
All over the Pakistan lawyer community has become a "wild horse's". Protector of law, has become trashing the law. Police action should be taken in all provinces including checking their educational credentials - lot of them wearing black coats n practicing without required education n licenses. Instead of helping their clients, they practice day light robberies by cheating clients under all/any possible avenues.
These "lawyers" should face the brunt of the laws that they should be upholding. What is up with this barbaric behaviour?! Thumbs up if you think they should get life imprisonments to set an example!