LAHORE: A traffic warden suffered a leg fracture and many deep injuries when a group of lawyers attacked him at GPO Chowk on Wednesday.

A police official said that nearly a dozen lawyers manhandled traffic warden Mohammad Akram when he got the son of a lawyer arrested for violating traffic laws and driving the motorcycle without a registration number.

He said the young man called his father, who along with other lawyers, came to the scene, first exchanged words with the warden and later thrashed him publically. Senior traffic officers rushed to the site, rescued the warden and shifted him to hospital in a serious condition.

Lawyers took up the matter with the Lahore Bar Association that the traffic warden had first beat a lawyer.

Lahore City Traffic Officer Muntazir Mehdi said the police high-ups held talks with the representatives of the bar when they visited his office.

He said CCTV footage of the incident showed the lawyers manhandled the cop inhumanly.

He said he asked the representatives of the bar to get the matter probed by themselves in the light of the evidence and they promised to visit him in the evening but no one turned up.

The CTO warned the lawyers of police action if they did not respond by 11am on Thursday as the crime had been committed against the state.

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2022

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