Outlaws: Police register cases against 150 lawyers
Cases were registered for beating up and torturing police personnel in public places in Quetta.
Lawyers pound a security official at Manan Chowk in Quetta on Wednesday. PHOTO: INP
QUETTA:
Police have registered cases against 150 lawyers under the Anti Terrorism Act for beating up and torturing police personnel in public places in Quetta.
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.
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.