Multan (December 14, 2017): A case against 39 lawyers including Lahore High Court Bar Multan Bench President Sherzaman Qureshi has been registered at Bahauddin Zakariya police station here for vandalising the judicial complex.
The lawyers had gone violent yesterday while protesting the shifting of the judicial complex and went on a rampage breaking the window glasses, furniture, doors of the judges’ rooms, and other things at the newly built building.
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The FIR was registered by the Superintendent judicial complex at Bahauddin Zakariya police station. The case was registered under Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act and Section 16 of the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance.
The lawyers had staged a protest outside the old judicial complex at Katcheri Chowk and reached the new complex in buses. After reaching the new premises, located on Matital Road, the lawyers stormed into the 55-room building and started vandalising the building.
The members of the legal fraternity claimed that they were against the decision to shift the judicial complex.
The new judicial complex does not have sufficient facilities, the protesting lawyers had claimed.
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