Bar to observe strike today: Lawyer’s humiliation
GUJRANWALA, April 2: The Wazirabad Tehsil Bar Association (TBA) has announced a complete strike on Thursday (today) to protest the alleged humiliation of a bar member at the hands of Alipur Chattha police after implicating him in what they called a false case.
The lawyers stripped some policemen when they reached Wazirabad on Wednesday to produce Advocate Amir Riaz and his accomplices before a local court on charges of aerial firing and arranging a party where obscene and vulgar dances were presented during a wedding ceremony.
The Alipur Chattha police had arrested Riaz, his brother Nasir Riaz and six others from Kot Wahar village two days ago.
Sub-inspector Abdul Qayyum and ASI Munir Ahmad brought to produce them in a court in Wazirabad. All the accused were handcuffed and the police allegedly humiliated them too, which provoked TBA lawyers, who later attacked the policemen and stripped them. Subsequently, an emergent meeting of the TBA chaired by its president Irfan Maqbool Butt condemned the police action.
The participants of the meeting decided that no lawyer would appear against their colleague in any court. They also decided to observe a complete strike on Thursday (today).
SEALED: The health department sealed three private hospitals in Ghakkar town on Wednesday after a raiding party recovered veterinary medicines being used for humans’ consumption. On a tip-off, Health EDO Dr Nisar Ahmad Cheema directed Dr. Muhammad Akram Rana and a drug inspector to raid Al Shifa Welfare Hospital, Hassam Hospital and Sajjad Hospital where veterinary medicines were being administered to humans.
The raiding party seized a large quantity of such veterinary medicine being administered to humans for the past around one year. The raiding party also sealed the hospitals and sent a challan to the drug court.
Source: Dawn
Date:4/3/2008
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