LAHORE, May 15: The transfer of district and sessions judge Khalil Ahmad Chaudhry from Lahore is understood to have been agreed upon among parties to resolve the conflict that caused ugly developments in the bench-bar relations this week.

Judge Khalil may not attend his office on May 17.

He is learnt to have earned extreme displeasure of the top man of the judiciary in the Punjab for agitating his other colleagues to tender their resignations and present them to him.

He is alleged to have used their resignations as a pressure tactic and failed in his legal duty to forward them to the Lahore High Court.

Simultaneously, the issue of trouble-making lawyers is also being taken up. The Lahore High Court Bar Association and the Lahore Bar association have reposed complete confidence in Chief Justice Iftikhar Husain Chaudhry and assured that action would be taken against elements who caused the dignity of the profession to be tarnished.

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