LAHORE, June 11: A lawyer beat up a police constable when the latter tried to scan the former with a metal detector at the entrance to Aiwan-i-Adl on Saturday morning.

Witnesses said Advocate Fahad Rathore walked through a security gate installed at the entrance to Aiwan-i-Adl and constable Noor Muhammad came forward to scan him. Rathore took body search as an offence and attacked the policeman.

Other policemen deployed at the entrance did not dare stop the infuriated lawyer. Some senior lawyers intervened and rescued the policeman.

The matter was brought to the notice of Lahore Bar Association representatives who called both the lawyer and the policemen to the bar room.

LBA Vice-President Chaudhry Arif tried to resolve the matter, but the constable refused to forgive the lawyer.

The constable later left the bar room in anger and told his colleagues that he could not perform his duties in such humiliating conditions. He put off his uniform and decided to get a case registered against the lawyer.

Bar representatives made another attempt to reconcile the two and finally succeeded.