Plea against ‘bullish’ lawyers dismissed

LAHORE:

An additional district and sessions judge disposed of a petition filed by a teacher of Government Chishtia High School who sought a case against a group of lawyers he accused of beating him up after he told the school staff to puncture the tyres of the lawyers’ vehicles parked “illegally” at the school.

Nayyar Iqbal said several lawyers used the school’s boundary walls as space to park their vehicles. He said the walls were being raised according to the security SOP issued by the government and the parked vehicles would hinder the construction. Iqbal said that he had requested the lawyers not to park their cars against the walls several times but they had refused to park elsewhere. He said the lawyers had beaten him up and threatened him with dire consequences. Iqbal said that he had visited the Islampura SHO to file a complaint against them but he had refused to register a case. The court summoned the SHO, who said that Iqbal had asked the school staff to puncture the tyres of lawyers’ vehicles parked in the school’s courtyard. He said the Lahore Bar Association had announced in its January 10 meeting that lawyers could park their vehicles in the courtyards of Girls Degree Collage and Chishtia High School. He said the lawyers had followed the LBA policy but the watchman and staff members of the Chishtia High School had punctured their cars’ tyres. The judge directed Iqbal to approach the relevant SHO and told the SHO to “look into the matter”.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 10^th, 2015.