February 13, 2008	Wednesday	Safar 05, 1429

KASUR, Feb 12: Chunnian Bar Association staged a demonstration to protest police failure to arrest the nominated murderers of a senior lawyer, blocking a road here on Tuesday.

The victim, advocate Mian Haroon, was shot dead outside his house a fortnight ago and his brother had nominated his (Haroon’s) wife and her brother Muhammad Asif as accused.

The FIR said Asif murdered the victim over a property dispute.

About 150 lawyers, who were accompanied by the victim’s 12-year-old son Burhan, marched from Chunnian courts to Kutchery road and blocked the road for about half an hour, chanting slogans against police.

Later, the lawyers went to the office of DSP and demanded immediate arrest of the culprits. They warned if the police did not arrest the accused till Wednesday (today) they would boycott courts and again block the road for the whole day.

HUNGER STRIKE: More than hundred inmates of a barrack in Kasur district jail observed hunger strike to protest the alleged torture of convicts by the jail superintendent here on Tuesday.

The strikers alleged that Superintendent Muhammad Saleem Butt along with some 25 jail staffers subjected the inmates of barrack No 7 to brutal torture on Monday night.

The inmates, including Fayyaz, Safdar and Abdul Haye, who had come to appear in the sessions court complained to the judge against the superintendent and demanded a probe into the matter.

Superintendent Muhammad Saleem Butt, however, denied the allegation.