LAHORE: A group of young lawyers on Monday gave a good thrashing to a litigant, allegedly for trying to enter the Lahore High Court Bar Association's Kiyani Hall that had restricted entry.

Muhammad Rasheed of Okara visited the high court to attend hearing of a bail matter and during the break time he tried to enter Kiyani Hall, a place reserved for the bar members.

As the bar's security staff stopped the litigant at the hall's gate, he insisted on entering the hall. Some young lawyers standing nearby intervened into the matter and asked Rasheed to go away. The litigant allegedly misbehaved with the lawyers too, and had an exchange of harsh words wit them.

According to eyewitnesses, the lawyers got infuriated and started thrashing Rasheed who fell unconscious. He was shifted to Mayo Hospital in an ambulance.

Later, bar president Shafqat Mahmood Chohan issued a press release, saying an unidentified man tried to forcibly enter Kiyani Hall and misbehaved and beat senior lawyers when they tried to stop him.

Chohan formed a committee headed by vice-president Amir Jalil Siddiqui to probe into the incident and identify the man. It will furnish its report on the issue within a week.