QUETTA, April 2: The Balochistan Bar Association (BBA) boycotted proceedings of the courts, including the high court, on Friday and announced that a two- hour token boycott of the courts would continue daily till the government transferred the superintendent of the Quetta district jail who had allegedly misbehaved with a lawyer.

Speaking at a news conference in the press club here, BBA vice-president Muhammad Sadiq Raisani said that advocate Farooq Sarwar had wanted to meet his client in the prison, but the jail officials had not only verbally abused him but also pushed him out of the prison, violating the law.

He noted that the law permitted the counsel to meet his client in the prison for preparing a case to be pleaded in a court, but the superintendent and other officials of the jail had been creating hurdles for him and other lawyers for some time.