FAISALABAD, Dec 7: Scores of lawyers threw traffic out of gear by demonstrating on the sessions court road in protest against attack on a lawyer by a litigant and his accomplices in the district courts here on Wednesday. Reports said Advocate Saifur Rehman had just left the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Najamul Hassan when a group, led by Mehr Akram, stopped him and gave him a sound beating. The lawyer had reportedly succeeded in getting the bail of one of them cancelled from court.

It is learnt that the attackers fled in the presence of the police.

The news spread like a wild fire among the lawyers, who gathered in the sessions court. They chanted slogans and demanded immediate arrest of Akram and his accomplices. SP city Abdul Saeed Naveed assured the protesting lawyers that the accused would be arrested very soon after which the protesters dispersed.

The Civil Lines police registered a case against Akram, his wife and three other people.

SHO terminated: DIG Khwaja Khalid Farooq on Wednesday terminated the services of the People’s Colony police SHO, inspector Abid Pehlwan, for corruption and keeping people in illegal detention.

Reports said People’s Colony police SHO Abid Pehlwan rounded up a youth, Imran Ahmad, on the charge of his involvement in a kidnap for ransom case but later freed him after getting Rs170,000 bribe.

To conceal his crime, he then arrested Imran’s brother Zeeshan Ahmad and harassed the family on one pretext or the other. The matter was brought into the notice of the Faisalabad police DIG, who ordered registration of a case against the inspector under section 361 and 101 of PPC and 166-D of the Police Order 2002. The DIG also suspended the SHO from service and ordered an inquiry into the allegations.

As the inquiry report found Abid guilty of crime, the DIG terminated his services.