Police on Saturday resorted to aerial firing and baton-charged the lawyers bent upon taking out a rally to protest yesterdays mishandling of some lawyers by the cops . The clash between cops and lawyers entered second day. Section 144 was also imposed for stopping the lawyers to take out the rally, however, the black coats defied it to press their demands. Rowdy lawyers threw stones on policemen and were seen damaging police vehicles. Policemen were brutally manhandled by some lawyers, as some were dragged out of police mobiles and beaten up.The lawyers also tortured media personnel covering the event. Camera men and reporters of various news channels and papers were reportedly injured as a result.Police in response resorted to baton charge and aerial firing to disperse the protesting lawyers. Several lawyers and poliemen have been reported to have gotten injured in the clashes.During the Fridays clash one dozen lawyers received severe injuries and four police officials also got wounded as the protesting lawyers pelted the cops with empty glass bottles. The police arrested more then 30 lawyers including two female ones and confined them in different police stations of the City. On Thursday, the police had arrested a good number of lawyers when they tried to storm the Lahore High Court chief justice courtroom. Some protesting lawyers also broke windowpanes of the courtroom, however, the representative bodies of the lawyers denied such allegations saying some other persons broke the same as they knew well the importance and sanctity of courts and law. On Friday, the lawyers first held a meeting in the civil courts bar room under the chair of vice president Saeeda Lubna, and then tried to come out on the road outside Aiwan-e-Adl for taking out the rally against the arrests of lawyers on Thursday, and the Punjab governments decision for arresting the lawyers who chanted anti-LHC CJ slogans. The police entered the bar room and brutally tortured some of the lawyers who could not manage to escape. They were dragged outside the room by the cops as a result of which one female lawyer received severe injures on her leg. The police threw tear gas inside the court premises for dispersing the furious lawyers. Police exacerbating situation: Hamid KhanSenior Lawyer Hamid Khan, while talking to Dunya News, alleged police of exacerbating the matter. Deploring the police-lawyers clash, he maintained that some lawyers were acting nasty on the behest of the government. He stated that imposition of section 144 was not a sane decision. Troublemakers disguised as lawyers: Justice (r) WajihuddinJustice Wajihuddin said that some nasty elements, in the guise of lawyers, are resorting to violence to create chaos. He said that such elements are also present in the police force. He said that the group of lawyers that banned the entry of senior lawyers in the Bar is working at the behest of the government.
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