VEHARI-District courts are faced with terrorist threats but the district administration and police are not paying attention to make proper arrangements in this regard even after many complaints, the District Bar Association said.
DBA Secretary General Masood Zafar at a press briefing here at district courts said that there are more than 750 lawyers working in district courts Vehari and attend more than 5,000 visitors but here is no system to frisk the visitors as per security guidelines.
The District Bar has four different ways in and ways out without any proper picket to monitor the suspects.
The bar president and secretary general have requested to the DPO and the DCO, many times, to improve the situation but to no avail.
Resultantly, District and Sessions Judge Saeedullah Mughal has written a letter to the commissioner Multan and chief justice of Lahore high court, saying that the district administration has not taken the steps as decided in the meetings and termed district administration responsible in case of any possible mishap, secretary general revealed.
Sources said that multiple meetings of the sessions judge were held with DCO and DPO regarding security arrangements but nothing has been done yet.
Bar President Malik Shabbier Awan, ex-President Maher Sher Bahadur Luk, Kashif khan, Farooq Advocate, Asim Rajab Chishti Advocate, Ahsan Chaudhry, Waseem Joyia and others demonstrated with other notables against district administration and police department for negligence.
They warned that if anything mishap happened the departments will be responsible.
The lawyers said that protection of courts is the responsibility of the security agencies and asked RPO Multan Sultan Azam Taimoori to ensure security of the district courts.
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