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After succesful campaigns against Genral (R) Musharaf which lead to his resignation and the restoration of disposed CJ in the present governments rule some of the elements in lawyers have really started thinking themselves above the law the only way they know to resolve there differences is voilence.The recent attacks by lawyers on policemen and mediamen are truly regretable,and as Dawn reports.... 
Friday, 31 Jul, 2009 | 06:05 AM PST |
Many investigation officers have started avoiding appearing in the higher as well as lower courts to avoid confrontation with lawyers, said police sources. - File photo
Pakistan
Lawyers fail camera trial on Lahore newsmen
LAHORE: Lawyers thrashed and manhandled five police officials (Investigation Officers) during case hearings in July 2009 while four cases were registered against them in two city police stations in the month, Dawn has learnt.
Interestingly, no lawyer has been penalised so far in any of the incidents as they managed to secure bails.
Several such incidents have taken place in higher and lower courts in the last few months, but no action has been taken so far against any lawyer.
In some cases, even judges were not spared and lawyers behaved discourteously towards them.
Police sources say many investigation officers have started avoiding appearing in the higher as well as lower courts to avoid confrontation with lawyers as the latter have developed a habit of misbehaving with the IOs after failing to win their cases or just to ‘satisfy’ their clients.
While an ASI of the Nishtar Colony investigation police was tortured and dragged by a group of lawyers after a case hearing in the Sessions Courts on Wednesday, another ASI of the Shalimar investigation police was also manhandled by some lawyers at the Lahore High Court the same day.
In both cases, lawyers, representing the accused parties, got annoyed when their clients were penalised by the courts.
Meanwhile, Old Anarkali police registered a case on Thursday under Sections 224, 225, 186, 353 and 506 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of ASI Muhammad Rafique who was slapped and dragged by some lawyers led by advocate Manzar Ali on Wednesday.
Reportedly, after the bail of Umair Yousaf of Faisal Park, Mughalpura, who was the accused in two cheque dishonuor cases, was cancelled by Lahore High Court Judge Anwarul Haq, his lawyer Manzar Ali, along with his fellow lawyers Majid Naseem Dogar and Muhammad Rafique Jhathol, manhandled the ASI and helped the accused escape from the court.
As the ASI tried to nab the accused, the lawyers started beating him.
ASI Sher Muhammad Pasha of Samanabad investigation police was thrashed by a group of lawyers led by advocates G A Tariq and Shahzad Sheikh in the Sessions Courts on July 28 and a case (731/09) was registered against four lawyers in the Islampura police station.
In another incident, SI Azam of Millat Park investigation police was manhandled by some lawyers in Model Town courts about a week ago.
Similarly, SI Sakhawat Ali of Wahdat Colony operations police complained to his high-ups that some lawyers misbehaved with him at Sessions Courts two weeks ago.
Senior Superintendent of Police (operations) Chaudhry Shafiq Ahmed told Dawn lawyers had been targeting judges, officials of police and other departments and even the clients of their rival lawyers appearing in the courts without any fear. He said the Lahore police would be soon hiring a lawyer to pursue all cases in which police officials were attacked by the lawyers.
He said it was the moral duty of the lawyers’ leaders to distinguish between their good and bad colleagues so that any untoward incident could be avoided in future.
He said such incidents had created a sense of insecurity among the IOs with regard to their court visits for the perusal of cases.
Record speaks
Official statistics show that only in Islampura police station, which deals with incidents occurring in Sessions Courts, 20 such cases were registered during the first seven months of 2009 where either lawyers were among accused or they were complainants against their colleagues.
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Police manhandled by lawyers ?routinely?
Friday, 31 Jul, 2009 | 06:06 AM PST |
Journalists stop the car of Provincial Minister Raja Riaz during a protest at Mall Road in Lahore.- Online photo
Pakistan
Lawyers fail camera trial on Lahore newsmen
LAHORE: The whole country reverberated with calls of accountability and justice after a group of lawyers attacked two journalists at the city’s sessions court on Thursday.
According to eyewitnesses, the lawyers were incensed by television channels’ reporting of an incident a day earlier which had projected black coats humiliating and beating up a policeman in uniform at the same courts. The images were telecast far and wide and drew protests from people at large over the singularly inhuman attitude shown by the attacking lawyers against the policeman, an assistant sub-inspector whose case is now pending with court.
On Thursday, a bunch of lawyers assaulted the reporter and cameraman of television channel City-42, which had filmed the Wednesday’s assault on the policeman. The lawyers targeted reporter Shaheen Attiq and cameraman Nasir soon after they reached the sessions courts on assignment. They snatched the camera from Nasir and declared that the media’s entry into the sessions courts had been banned.
Reporter Shaheen managed to get the camera back and asked Nasir to leave. The lawyers, however, pulled Nasir out of his office van as he was leaving the sessions courts, and subjected him to violence. He received a head injury, his shirt was torn and his camera was badly damaged.
The court reporters protested against the incident at the Lahore High Court and decided to boycott the coverage of the lawyers’ activities starting with the People’s Lawyers Forum elections being held there.
Talking to a delegation of print and electronic media reporters in the afternoon, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif described the torture of journalists by the lawyers as regrettable and shameful. He said he was perturbed on watching the manhandling of a policeman by the lawyers on television a day earlier.
He said he had told the leaders of the bar that the lawyers involved in violence were bringing a bad name to the profession and depriving it of the prestige earned during the movement for the restoration of the judiciary.
The chief justice called Lahore High Court Bar Association President Justice Nasira Javed Iqbal (retired), Supreme Court Bar Association Secretary Shaukat Umar Pirzada and Lahore Bar Association President Rana Zia Abdul Rehman who apprised him of their concern over the violence of lawyers against the journalists. He also contacted Punjab Bar Council Vice-Chairman Asif Ali Malik by telephone and asked him to take disciplinary action against those involved in the attack on journalists.
The Punjab Union of Journalists and the Lahore Press Club decried the violence by lawyers against the media and called upon Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and the LHC chief justice to take suo motu notice of the incident.
The assault, latest in a series involving the lawyers in the past few days, drew widespread criticism, the voice of the lawyers’ leaders being the feeblest among them. In Lahore, while a number of people called for shunting out the black sheep from among the black coats, leading lights of the bar fell well short of a categorical condemnation of the violence; their approach was only marginally different from to the stance they had taken on some recent occasions where the lawyers had appeared to be the perpetrators of violence against those challenging their ‘authority’.
The remarks emanating from the bar following Thursday’s violent act were similar to the ones made in the wake of the lawyers’ battles with the revenue staff a few weeks ago in Faisalabad and a slightly less intense fight with the Wapda officials in Kasur a few days later.
After the Wednesday’s public beating of the ASI at the sessions court in Lahore, some lawyers’ leaders had expressed doubts about the identity of the attackers even though the faces were splashed all over the channels for many minutes for anyone who cared to recognise.
The police said it had a case registered against five lawyers -- Rana Asif Raza, Rana Saeed Anwar, Malik Muhammad Hanif, Sajjad Afzal and Mehr Jehangir – who got interim bail till Aug 10 in connection with the attack on the policeman. The lawyers on Thursday approached Additional District and Sessions Judge Malik Rafiq for registration of a counter-case against the ASI on charges of abusing them for today.
The AD&SJ issued notice on the application for Friday but the lawyers insisted that a notice may be issued for Thursday. This infuriated the lawyers and they tore up the file containing their application.
DAWN.COM | Metropolitan | Lawyers attack newsmen in Lahore
Police manhandled by lawyers ‘routinely’
By Muhammad Faisal Ali Friday, 31 Jul, 2009 | 06:05 AM PST |
Many investigation officers have started avoiding appearing in the higher as well as lower courts to avoid confrontation with lawyers, said police sources. - File photo
Pakistan
Lawyers fail camera trial on Lahore newsmen
LAHORE: Lawyers thrashed and manhandled five police officials (Investigation Officers) during case hearings in July 2009 while four cases were registered against them in two city police stations in the month, Dawn has learnt.
Interestingly, no lawyer has been penalised so far in any of the incidents as they managed to secure bails.
Several such incidents have taken place in higher and lower courts in the last few months, but no action has been taken so far against any lawyer.
In some cases, even judges were not spared and lawyers behaved discourteously towards them.
Police sources say many investigation officers have started avoiding appearing in the higher as well as lower courts to avoid confrontation with lawyers as the latter have developed a habit of misbehaving with the IOs after failing to win their cases or just to ‘satisfy’ their clients.
While an ASI of the Nishtar Colony investigation police was tortured and dragged by a group of lawyers after a case hearing in the Sessions Courts on Wednesday, another ASI of the Shalimar investigation police was also manhandled by some lawyers at the Lahore High Court the same day.
In both cases, lawyers, representing the accused parties, got annoyed when their clients were penalised by the courts.
Meanwhile, Old Anarkali police registered a case on Thursday under Sections 224, 225, 186, 353 and 506 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of ASI Muhammad Rafique who was slapped and dragged by some lawyers led by advocate Manzar Ali on Wednesday.
Reportedly, after the bail of Umair Yousaf of Faisal Park, Mughalpura, who was the accused in two cheque dishonuor cases, was cancelled by Lahore High Court Judge Anwarul Haq, his lawyer Manzar Ali, along with his fellow lawyers Majid Naseem Dogar and Muhammad Rafique Jhathol, manhandled the ASI and helped the accused escape from the court.
As the ASI tried to nab the accused, the lawyers started beating him.
ASI Sher Muhammad Pasha of Samanabad investigation police was thrashed by a group of lawyers led by advocates G A Tariq and Shahzad Sheikh in the Sessions Courts on July 28 and a case (731/09) was registered against four lawyers in the Islampura police station.
In another incident, SI Azam of Millat Park investigation police was manhandled by some lawyers in Model Town courts about a week ago.
Similarly, SI Sakhawat Ali of Wahdat Colony operations police complained to his high-ups that some lawyers misbehaved with him at Sessions Courts two weeks ago.
Senior Superintendent of Police (operations) Chaudhry Shafiq Ahmed told Dawn lawyers had been targeting judges, officials of police and other departments and even the clients of their rival lawyers appearing in the courts without any fear. He said the Lahore police would be soon hiring a lawyer to pursue all cases in which police officials were attacked by the lawyers.
He said it was the moral duty of the lawyers’ leaders to distinguish between their good and bad colleagues so that any untoward incident could be avoided in future.
He said such incidents had created a sense of insecurity among the IOs with regard to their court visits for the perusal of cases.
Record speaks
Official statistics show that only in Islampura police station, which deals with incidents occurring in Sessions Courts, 20 such cases were registered during the first seven months of 2009 where either lawyers were among accused or they were complainants against their colleagues.
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Police manhandled by lawyers ?routinely?
Lawyers attack newsmen in Lahore
By Muhammad Asghar Friday, 31 Jul, 2009 | 06:06 AM PST |
Journalists stop the car of Provincial Minister Raja Riaz during a protest at Mall Road in Lahore.- Online photo
Pakistan
Lawyers fail camera trial on Lahore newsmen
LAHORE: The whole country reverberated with calls of accountability and justice after a group of lawyers attacked two journalists at the city’s sessions court on Thursday.
According to eyewitnesses, the lawyers were incensed by television channels’ reporting of an incident a day earlier which had projected black coats humiliating and beating up a policeman in uniform at the same courts. The images were telecast far and wide and drew protests from people at large over the singularly inhuman attitude shown by the attacking lawyers against the policeman, an assistant sub-inspector whose case is now pending with court.
On Thursday, a bunch of lawyers assaulted the reporter and cameraman of television channel City-42, which had filmed the Wednesday’s assault on the policeman. The lawyers targeted reporter Shaheen Attiq and cameraman Nasir soon after they reached the sessions courts on assignment. They snatched the camera from Nasir and declared that the media’s entry into the sessions courts had been banned.
Reporter Shaheen managed to get the camera back and asked Nasir to leave. The lawyers, however, pulled Nasir out of his office van as he was leaving the sessions courts, and subjected him to violence. He received a head injury, his shirt was torn and his camera was badly damaged.
The court reporters protested against the incident at the Lahore High Court and decided to boycott the coverage of the lawyers’ activities starting with the People’s Lawyers Forum elections being held there.
Talking to a delegation of print and electronic media reporters in the afternoon, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif described the torture of journalists by the lawyers as regrettable and shameful. He said he was perturbed on watching the manhandling of a policeman by the lawyers on television a day earlier.
He said he had told the leaders of the bar that the lawyers involved in violence were bringing a bad name to the profession and depriving it of the prestige earned during the movement for the restoration of the judiciary.
The chief justice called Lahore High Court Bar Association President Justice Nasira Javed Iqbal (retired), Supreme Court Bar Association Secretary Shaukat Umar Pirzada and Lahore Bar Association President Rana Zia Abdul Rehman who apprised him of their concern over the violence of lawyers against the journalists. He also contacted Punjab Bar Council Vice-Chairman Asif Ali Malik by telephone and asked him to take disciplinary action against those involved in the attack on journalists.
The Punjab Union of Journalists and the Lahore Press Club decried the violence by lawyers against the media and called upon Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and the LHC chief justice to take suo motu notice of the incident.
The assault, latest in a series involving the lawyers in the past few days, drew widespread criticism, the voice of the lawyers’ leaders being the feeblest among them. In Lahore, while a number of people called for shunting out the black sheep from among the black coats, leading lights of the bar fell well short of a categorical condemnation of the violence; their approach was only marginally different from to the stance they had taken on some recent occasions where the lawyers had appeared to be the perpetrators of violence against those challenging their ‘authority’.
The remarks emanating from the bar following Thursday’s violent act were similar to the ones made in the wake of the lawyers’ battles with the revenue staff a few weeks ago in Faisalabad and a slightly less intense fight with the Wapda officials in Kasur a few days later.
After the Wednesday’s public beating of the ASI at the sessions court in Lahore, some lawyers’ leaders had expressed doubts about the identity of the attackers even though the faces were splashed all over the channels for many minutes for anyone who cared to recognise.
The police said it had a case registered against five lawyers -- Rana Asif Raza, Rana Saeed Anwar, Malik Muhammad Hanif, Sajjad Afzal and Mehr Jehangir – who got interim bail till Aug 10 in connection with the attack on the policeman. The lawyers on Thursday approached Additional District and Sessions Judge Malik Rafiq for registration of a counter-case against the ASI on charges of abusing them for today.
The AD&SJ issued notice on the application for Friday but the lawyers insisted that a notice may be issued for Thursday. This infuriated the lawyers and they tore up the file containing their application.
DAWN.COM | Metropolitan | Lawyers attack newsmen in Lahore
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