NAROWAL: The Shakargarh Bar Association protested on Monday the police’s failure to resolve the murder case of a lawyer.

On Aug 3, lawyer Muhammad Tariq Piswal, of Piswal, was shot dead for representing a party in a case.

The Shakargarh police registered a murder case against seven nominated suspects.

Lawyers said despite the passage of 20 days, the police had yet to trace the killers.

Lawyers with the relatives of the deceased blocked Narowal-Shakargarh Road and shouted slogans against the police.

Relatives said the suspects were influential while bar president Chaudhry Nadeem Hayat and secretary Muhammad Irshad said the police demonstrated incompetence in the case.

They accused the police of working in collusion with the killers.

Lawyers warned of hitting the road again, after two days if the police did not arrest the suspects. The traffic jam left traffic stuck creating problems for passengers.

The police assured the protesters of the arrest of the suspects, to which the protest was postponed for two days.

Complaint ASI: The Sialkot police are looking into the complaint of a wedding hall official who alleges that an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) hurled threats at him when he demanded the bill of a wedding event held on March 14, 2021.

Complainant Muhammad Zubair alleges the ASI posted at the Saddar police gave Rs50,000 in advance, while the total bill was Rs450,000, of which he paid Rs200,000.

He later on refused to pay the remaining money and instead threatened to implicate the manager in a drug case.

Published in Dawn, August 23rd, 2022