Lawyers ‘thrash’ yet another cop
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LAHORE: A group of lawyers on Thursday gave a sound thrashing to a police sub-inspector allegedly for using the glass of a lawyer for drinking water outside the Lahore High Court Bar Association cafeteria.
According to eyewitnesses, the angry lawyers allegedly snatched two mobile phones and a court case file from uniformed SI Liaqat Ali of Nankana Sahib.
The police official had come to the court to appear in a bail matter and after the hearing, he went to bar cafeteria to drink water.
An eyewitness said the row erupted when the SI picked a glass and water jug placed on a table normally used by lawyers belonging to the “Save Judiciary Committee”.
He said the lawyers started slapping the policeman hard on his face and dragged him on the ground.
Later, the lawyers expelled the SI out of the bar area, allegedly after snatching two cellular phones, cash and court-case file from him.
An inspector of Daska police, Shahzad Warraich, had recently shot two lawyers dead during a brawl that allegedly erupted after he was manhandled by black coats.
Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2015
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Jun 19, 2015 07:58am
Not sure if we need to put kids in schools or send lawyers to school...
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Jun 19, 2015 08:54am
How low are these lawyers going to fall? Not allowing a cop to drink water, how mean? Law needs to be made simple to get rid of these lawless lawyers.
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Jun 19, 2015 08:55am
So, the areas where lawyers are present, are no go areas for normal human beings?
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Jun 19, 2015 08:55am
Shameful act.
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Jun 19, 2015 08:59am
Isn't it terrorism? Their case needs to be taken up by the Military Courts for beating a government functionary.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:00am
Why isn't the government supporting the victimized cop?
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Jun 19, 2015 09:09am
Untouchability??
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Jun 19, 2015 09:24am
It shows what kind of mentality actually we have. We can expect such kind of acts from a layman but what we can expect if such kind of educated people behave like an illiterate.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:26am
Lawyers are acting like criminals, case should be registered against them and guilty ones should be disbarred from the profession.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:31am
And we call these thugs "CIVIL" Society?
I wonder if they even know the meaning of the word "civil"
With this civil society, Pakistan is headed towards abyss.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:32am
I think Lawyers are doing their best to get No 1 position as most evil doers. To me, they have snatched this position from Police. |Lawyers biradari ko Mubarak ho...
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Jun 19, 2015 09:47am
Police should remove security from courts.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:48am
In a nation where openly corrupt and militant people are leading political parties and no one can touch them, what else did we expect....
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Jun 19, 2015 10:21am
This behavior only brings shame to their profession.
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Jun 19, 2015 10:53am
Lawyers should be taught a lesson. Why no sou moto action is taken against them with their licenses cancelled for life.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:19am
i cannot believe Pakistani Lawyer are acting such badly with policemen
Protector or interpeter of law are taking Law in Hand
Shame to lawyer
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Jun 19, 2015 11:26am
Two most despised species against each other!!!!!
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Jun 19, 2015 02:14pm
these lawyers should be disbarred, only then in future will lawyers behave.
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Jun 19, 2015 02:17pm
Another one. These lawyers must be arrested and jailed!!!!
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Jun 19, 2015 02:35pm
Lawyers community has proven times and again that it does not qualify as humans. Shame on the lawyers of this era.
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Jun 19, 2015 02:35pm
I think it is due to black coats they have to wear even in this hot weather! It's due to the heat their temper is always close to boiling point.
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Jun 19, 2015 02:37pm
These lawyers are behaving like a mafia and need to be tackled by the authorities as part of the broader crackdown on miscreants in the country.
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Jun 19, 2015 02:44pm
Yet again a shameful act by lawers. The Lawers movement was supposed to bring Justice to the nation but infact it turned them into the Godfathers.
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Jun 19, 2015 02:45pm
Lawyers steal from people every day, but this is a first. Never heard of lawyers mugging someone in public for his money and cellular phone.
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Jun 19, 2015 03:02pm
Most of these so called lawyers are stated to have bogus degrees. Where in the world lawyers behave in this manner. A high powered inquiry commision should systematically verify the degrees of the lawyers, doctors, educationists, bureaucrats, journalists, judges etc.
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Jun 19, 2015 03:06pm
What makes them think they can do this? Where's the judiciary in these cases! They shouldn't be allowed to practice law ever. Is anyone gonna hold them accountable for this?!
Illiterate and inhuman people!
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Jun 19, 2015 03:09pm
These culprits belong behind bars!
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Jun 19, 2015 03:23pm
Do not expect this kind of behavior from the so called "educated". With this kind of behavior, what is the difference between them and the hoodlums?
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Jun 19, 2015 03:32pm
And where is the Bar association? I guess wondering how to bring more bad reputation to the legal profession.
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Jun 19, 2015 03:33pm
Sick and discriminatory act from so called custodians of law and justice. Soon you guys will also be thrashed the same way.
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Jun 19, 2015 04:02pm
An other example of how molded our society has become. This had nothing to do b terrorism or corruption. Simply put it's a morally bankrupt society.
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Jun 19, 2015 04:11pm
black coats resembling to darkness of stupidity really much suits them!
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Jun 19, 2015 04:16pm
Lawyers are getting out of hand. Beating innocent children and now beating police officers.
Its time they are held accountable in military courts.
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Jun 19, 2015 04:27pm
Deplorable act. Why are these 'so-callled lawyers' allowed to get away with such criminal behavior, is beyond me.
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Jun 19, 2015 04:46pm
High Court is sleeping and so called lawyers taking law in their hands to punish every one who is in their way. Why action against such lawyers not being taken.
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Jun 19, 2015 04:49pm
Only one law exists.......Might is Right
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Jun 19, 2015 04:55pm
Kindly notice majority of our politicians are lawyers or law graduates to an extent
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Jun 19, 2015 08:20pm
where are all the supporters of lawyers movements 2007, who thought this were somehow the leaders of our democracy? where are you? are you ashamed of these people yet? they did the same stuff back then, and they are doing it again.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:49pm
Those lawyers who behaved in such a manner, and beating up a teenager in Lahore two days ago, are a disgrace to the profession. They are not above the law. The least their professional body in Pakistan can do is to throw them out and ban them from practising their profession.
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Jun 20, 2015 02:30am
Any legal body, Bar Association, or even a Court, should distance themselves from these disgraceful lawyers, and refuse them membership, nor hear any cases in which these lawyers appear on the record.
Expulsion from the profession and unemployment would be appropriate punishment to send a message to other lawyers who supported their criminal behavior!
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Jun 20, 2015 08:17am
If the lawyers belong to PTI then it must be police's fault. Just like Daska incident.
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