Lawyers demand removal of SSP Hyderabad

The conflict between Hyderabad police and the city's lawyers, triggered by impounding of an advocate's vehicle for using fancy number plate and tinted glasses, aggravated on Thursday with the legal practitioners blocking Hyderabad bypass road in protest. Hundreds of lawyers gathered on the bypass road adjacent to Wadhu Wah gate in Qasimabad in the afternoon. The crowd increased manifold by the evening. The lawyers' representatives, who addressed the protest, reiterated their demand for removal of Hyderabad's SSP Dr Farrukh Ali Lanjar amid slogans condemning and insulting the city's police chief. "You are a mischievous person, go SSP go." Lanjar is being blamed for unjustifiably directing his subordinate cops to register an FIR on the vehicle. Lawyers claim SSP reacted after his vehicle was overtaken, but police say the FIR is part of a crackdown on cars with police lights, tinted windows, and fancy plates. Apparently, around 50 FIRs have been filed in Hyderabad recently for similar offenses. The lawyers, on their part, have vehemently rejected the police's assertion. The sit-in on the bypass road, which connects M9 Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway with the National Highway, caused a suspension of movement of vehicles. The protest continued till the filing of this report. The passengers who expressed their anguish to the media said they have nothing to do with Hyderabad police or the lawyers but they are suffering on the highway. The Sindh High Court Bar Association, Hyderabad chapter's leader advocate Ayaz Hussain Tunio said they kept warning the authorities not to take anger amongst lawyers lightly. He added that the legal fraternity did not want to take recourse to such a protest; this is why they gave ample time to the police authorities to send Lanjar packing. He cautioned that the matter could become more complicated if the government acted with delay. Tunio asked why DIG Hyderabad Tariq Razzak Dharejo did not honour his word given to the lawyers protesting outside SSP office on February 4 that he would visit the bar on February 6 along with the transfer order of Lanjar. He told that the lawyers from other parts of Sindh were in contact and that they would also be joining their protest. "Today Pakistan's national highway has been blocked. The government needs to take this matter seriously." Senior lawyer advocate Sajjad Ahmed Chandio contested the stance of some police officials who argue that transferring their SSP would leave a demoralising effect on them. He asked why their morale does not become affected when feudal lords mistreat policemen. "It is not about the police and lawyers but it is about the rule of law and lawlessness," Chandio said. Advocate K B Lutf Ali Laghari threatened that the lawyers may end up launching a movement like the one started in 2007 for restoration of former chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry if the provincial government remained adamant. He reiterated that their only demand is SSP Lanjar's removal. Earlier on Wednesday, district police officials reacted to the lawyers' protest inside the SSP office by tendering leave applications, effectively relinquishing their charges of the police stations and various police units. The Sindh information secretary of Pakistan Peoples Party former senator Aajiz Dhamrah visited the protestors on Thursday night. He sat with them on the road and patiently heard advocate Laghari narrating lawyer's complaints.

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