MULTAN: Police have registered on Thursday a case against 40 lawyers, including Lahore High Court Bar Multan Bench President Sherzaman Qureshi, for vandalising the new judicial complex.
Superintendent judicial complex lodged the FIR (First Information Report) at Bahauddin Zakariya police station. The case has been registered under Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act and Section 16 of the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance.
On Wednesday, lawyers protested the shifting of the judicial complex and resorted to vandalising the new building. The enraged lawyers broke the windows and doors of the judges’ rooms and courtrooms inside the new judicial complex and chanted slogans.
Television footage showed police trying to contain the protesting lawyers in front of the complex. At one point, however, the lawyers managed to break past the police and surround them and were seen aggressively clapping their hands above their heads. The lawyers then broke into the complex building and began smashing windows and doors inside a sessions court with sticks.