Kotwali police on Monday claimed to have arrested one of the lawyers accused of firing shots in the air to celebrate their candidate’s victory at the district bar association elections on Saturday.
Afzal Dhilloon was arrested from his house on Woodberry, Sargodha Road. Police said they were still looking for the seven other lawyers accused of firing. City Police Officer Haidar Ashraf told The Express Tribune that he had constituted two committees comprising superintendents to take action on the matter.
One of the committees, supervised by Lyallpur Town SP Sahibzada Bilal Umar, has been tasked with arresting the eight suspects and the other, supervised by Admin SP Imran Kishwar, to seek the cancellation of their licences to practice. Dhilloon has been sent to a lockup.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 14th, 2014.