OKARA: The district and sessions judge (D&SJ) has categorised all the 24 courts at the district headquarters for management of different kinds of cases to speed up the proceedings.

Briefing the journalists on the case management plan in his office on Monday, D&SJ Bedar Bakht said separate courts and judges had been assigned categories of cases like murder, drugs, civil, family and criminal cases and appellate work, government, Wapda and SNGPL-related cases.

Mr Bakht said that under the new management plan, the courts had also been allotted numbers. All the judges would wear special gowns and the rest of the courts staff would be in special uniform as directed by the Lahore High Court.

KILLED: A man was stabbed to death and two of his family members were injured by five of their neighbours over a petty issue at Chak 35/2-RA.

According to the FIR registered with Saddar police, Ashfaq and Naveed, who were neighbours, had an exchange of harsh words. At night, Ashfaq, along with accomplices, identified as Shahbaz, Saleem, Ishtiaq and Majeed, broke into the house of Naveed and attacked him with blows of knives. Naveed died on the spot while his two other family members, namely Zeeshan and Tauseef, were injured.

The injured were shifted to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital where doctors referred him to Lahore.

Published in Dawn, September 19th, 2017