KARACHI, Oct 2: The legal proceedings at the city courts and district courts in Malir remained suspended on a second consecutive day as the lawyers observed a strike on Tuesday against the new local government law.

The province-wide strike call was given by the Sindh Bar Council — an apex body of lawyers at provincial level — to condemn the local bodies law recently adopted by the Sindh Assembly only a day after a province-wide strike in jails over the killing of Malir jail deputy superintendent and juvenile prison assistant superintendent had affected court proceedings.

On Tuesday, the courts wore a deserted look as the hearing of hundreds of cases fixed for the day was stalled. The legal work was badly disturbed at the special courts, including anti-terrorism courts, anti-corruption courts, accountability courts, banking courts and anti-narcotics courts, as lawyers stayed away.

The undertrial prisoners were not brought to courts because of the strike at prisons over the killing of the two jail officials and then due to the boycott call given by the SBC in protest against the Sindh People’s Local Government bill which was passed in the assembly on Monday.

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