LAHORE, Jan 9: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday upheld an objection raised by registrar’s office and declared non-maintainable a petition of the Young Doctors Association challenging actions being taken by the Punjab government against its members.

The association in its petition stated that the Punjab government had been victimising the young doctors and issuing their removal, suspension and transfer orders ‘unnecessarily’.

The YDA counsel argued that despite court directions the government had not implemented service structure for young doctors. He asked the court to restrain the government from ‘harassing’ YDA members.

After hearing the arguments, the court sustained the objections raised by registrar’s office and dismissed the petition. The office had asked the petitioner to file a contempt petition instead of harassment petition.

Lakshmi Mansion: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing of a petition against demolition of Lakhsmi Mansion situated between Beadon Road and Hall Road.

The court deferred the hearing as reply of the city district government was not filed and the government’s counsel sought time for this.

Next date of hearing will be fixed by the registrar’s office.

Advocate Arif Karim filed the petition stating Lakshmi Mansion had a great significance in the history of the subcontinent dating back to pre-partition era.

He pointed out that many famous personalities of the region including great fiction writer Saadat Hasan Manto had been residing in there.

The petitioner said the city district government under Dilkash Lahore project had decided to preserve Lakshmi Mansion and some other buildings in the city having historic values.

However, he said, the government demolished one portion of the mansion in the name of commercialisation and had planned demolition of the whole building.

The petitioner alleged the government demolished the building to ‘please’ Hall Road Traders Union president.