LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Bar Association has announced providing free legal aid to the complainant of the murder case of Farzana, a pregnant woman stoned to death by her family members outside the Lahore High Court on Wednesday, and urged the government to arrest the suspects.

At a press conference on Friday, bar's secretary Mian Ahmad Chichar said the incident had exposed country's criminal justice system.

He said the woman was murder in the presence of police personnel who did not rescue her. He asked the government to take action against the cops for acting as silent spectators on the crime scene.

Mr Chichar said the bar was going to form a committee to examine the legal points of the murder case and to make recommendations for the government in order to avoid such incidents in future.

Bar's vice-president Amir Jalil demanded the government try to arrest the killers and ensure exemplary punishment for them.

Published in Dawn, May 31th, 2014