Lahore: 200 lawyers booked for roughing up mediamen, cops

As many as 200 lawyers, including President Lahore Bar Sajid Bashir, have been booked for inflicting torture on some cops and mediamen, Dunya News reported on Sunday. On Saturday, the blackcoats thrashed some media persons and cops during a protest demonstration against police highhandedness. The mediamen requested the police to book some 200 lawyers including Sajid Bashir, Usman Khalid, Mian Hafeez, Azeem A Sheikh, Mehar Ahsan, Tariq Sindhu, Lubna Haider, Safdar Bhutta, Jawad Shah, Zulfiqar Haider Manki, Nowsherwan Adil, Latif Sra, Munir Ahsan, Qasim Buttar, Shakil Gondal, Munir Chohan, Sarmad Ghani, MR Ranjha, Kamran Bhutta, SAFDAR Ranjha and Zia, etc. However, no arrest has been made as yet.