*LAHORE: The Punjab Bar Council has given a 24-hour ultimatum to provincialgovernment to register case against Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah andother for the authorities’ alleged torture of lawyers in Lahore duringPTI’s Azadi March. *
Addressing a press conference in Lahore, Jaffer Tayyar – Vice-Chairman ofPunjab Bar Council – said that a case should be registered against RanaSanaullah, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Punjab and others followingthe orders of Sessions Court.
He further said that a contempt of court petition will be filed if thegovernment failed to register case against those responsible forauthorities’ alleged torture of lawyers.
Jaffer Tayyar strongly condemned the alleged torture of lawyers during PTI’sAzadi March link, terming it ashameful act.
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Taking over the presser, Irfan Saeed – Chairman of Punjab Bar ExecutiveCommittee – demanded that the cases registered against the lawyers shouldbe disposed off immediately. ” If lawyers continue to be subjected to suchtorture, society cannot survive,” he added.
A day earlier, a Lahore district and sessions court orderedlinktheregistration of cases against Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and othersagainst police torture of PTI workers during party’s recently held ‘AzadiMarch’.
