Over parking: Lawyers, health directorate officials brawl
The directorate’s staff threatened to agitate if their colleagues are arrested
PESHAWAR:
A scuffle broke out between employees of the health directorate and lawyers on Friday over a parking space in the directorate’s premises on Khyber Road.
According to health department’s administration director Dr Shams, a lawyer parked his vehicle in the space reserved for the director general of health services. The health department’s staff asked him to park his car in the space allocated to lawyers, but he didn’t and also blocked the building’s entry route, while his other colleagues came to his aid.
Shams said they tried to solve the issue peacefully but lawyers accompanied by their clients went into the DG’s office with the matter. He alleged the lawyers thrashed two health department employees and then registered a case against them.
The directorate’s staff threatened to agitate if their colleagues are arrested. According to them, lawyers have their own car parking facility at Nishtar Hall. An enquiry into the incident is under way.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 6th, 2014.
A scuffle broke out between employees of the health directorate and lawyers on Friday over a parking space in the directorate’s premises on Khyber Road.
According to health department’s administration director Dr Shams, a lawyer parked his vehicle in the space reserved for the director general of health services. The health department’s staff asked him to park his car in the space allocated to lawyers, but he didn’t and also blocked the building’s entry route, while his other colleagues came to his aid.
Shams said they tried to solve the issue peacefully but lawyers accompanied by their clients went into the DG’s office with the matter. He alleged the lawyers thrashed two health department employees and then registered a case against them.
The directorate’s staff threatened to agitate if their colleagues are arrested. According to them, lawyers have their own car parking facility at Nishtar Hall. An enquiry into the incident is under way.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 6th, 2014.