MARDAN, May 8: A senior civil judge, Sumera Noreen, has claimed that some officials of  the district headquarters hospital attacked her house and threw out her household items, while the hospital authorities claimed that she had forcibly occupied the house.

The hospital doctors and judges have developed a dispute over the house.

The doctors have decided to observe a strike against the judge and the judicial officials, who, they claim, have forcibly occupied the residence.

The judicial officials, who were joined by the lawyers, also threatened protest against the attitude of the hospital officials.

Ms Noreen told Dawn that she was transferred to Mardan and put up in a rented house. As an official residence was lying vacant for the last six months, her senior officer gave her the keys and she shifted to the house on Saturday, the judge said.

A day later, unidentified people forcibly entered the house when she was in the office, the judge claimed and added that the assailants harassed her family. The intruders also threw out her household items, she alleged.  

She accused the DHQ Hospital Medical Superintendent Zortalab Khan of having sent the men to her house.

Deputy Medical Superintendent Shahid Khan claimed that the residence  was under the control of the hospital. He said a hospital officer, Dr Bakht Zari, lived in the house for 12 years, after which Dr Tariq Mehmood lived there for four years. Dr Mehmood vacated the house two weeks back because it was the residence of the hospital gynaecologist and was allotted to Dr Shehnaz Afridi.

A senior lawyer at the district courts said the Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan was expected to visit the Mardan to resolve the issue.