The Lawyers community on Thursday continued boycotting court proceedings across Rawalpindi Division for third consecutive day in protest against the F-8 terrorist attack in which several innocent persons including an additional sessions judge were killed.
Lawyers observed a three-day strike on the call given by Punjab Bar Council and stayed away from court proceedings to condemn the incident and express solidarity with the families of those killed.
Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench, Anti-Terrorism Courts, Special courts, Judicial Complex Rawalpindi, local courts in Murree, Taxila, Kotli Sattian, Gujjar Khan, Kallar Syedan and banking courts gave a deserted look as no hearings took place.
The lawyers associations held condolence references and hoisted black flags at bar rooms to mourn death of the judge and innocent people killed in the gun and bomb attack carried out in the district courts of the federal capital on Monday morning.
Bar associations passed several resolutions condemning the incident and demanded immediate arrest of the perpetrators behind the heinous crime and bringing them to book at the earliest.
They also demanded to ensure foolproof security to judges and lawyers to avoid re-occurrence of such incidents in future.
Tight security arrangements were made in and around the courts where lawyers and litigants were allowed to enter court premises after thorough body search for taking next dates of their scheduled cases.