JHANG, Oct 30: The District Bar Association has rejected the proposed shifting of Jhang district courts from its present site to a place some 15 kilometres from the city on Chiniot Road.

The shifting has been proposed after the construction of courts and allied offices at the new venue.

The DBA in its resolution demanded the reconstruction of the district courts building on its present site on modern lines after demolishing over a century-old building.

Bar president Syed Saleem Raza Bukhari told Dawn that the present site, spreading over an area of 55 kanals of land, was sufficient for the general public, litigants as well as the lawyers community and judicial officers.

He said the present location of the district courts was easily approachable and accessible from all directions and corners of the district.

The proposed new complex, he said, would house only civil and sessions courts, while revenue courts and other offices would keep on working at the old site, creating difficulties for lawyers who would become a rolling stone between the two premises.

He claimed that both civil and revenue courts could easily be housed in separate multi-storey complexes on the pattern of Lahore district courts and Awan-i-Adal near the Secretariat.

The bar president urged the Lahore high court chief justice and the Punjab chief minister to reconsider the shifting plan in the larger interest of the general public and lawyers community.

INJURED: Three family members were injured seriously on resistance during a dacoity in a house in Hassu Balail village, some 40kms from here.

Reports reaching here on Sunday said that eight armed dacoits entered the house of farmer Allah Bakhsh by scaling its boundary wall. The intruders opened fire on inmates when they raised an alarm. As a result, Allah Bakhsh, his son Akhtar and daughter Mussarat sustained serious bullet injuries. Later, the dacoits took away Rs250,000 in cash, jewellery and other valuables.