Lawyers booked for sedition

Published May 22, 2007

HYDERABAD, May 21: Police on Monday registered a sedition case against office-bearers of the High Court Bar Association, Hyderabad District Bar Association, Sindh Bar Council and leaders of parties in the Hyderabad Grand Alliance.

The case was lodged on the complaint of Cantonment police SHO Mohammad Nawaz Arain.

The lawyers had taken out a procession from the civil courts to the press club in support of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

Leaders of the Hyderabad Grand Alliance’s were booked for having had expressed their solidarity with the lawyers by joining the protest.

Those who were booked are: Sindh Bar Council vice-chairman Amin Lakhani, HCBA president Abdul Sattar Kazi, general-secretary Allah Bachayo Soomro, HDBA president Abdul Aziz Sheikh, HDBA office-bearers Javed Bukhari and Ayaz Tunio, SBC members Fazal Qadir Memon, Mehmoodul Hassan, Aqil Lodhi, Noor Naz Agha, Shafi Chandio, Allah Bachayo and ex-HDBA president Chaudhry Bashir Gujjar and HGA leaders Abdul Waheed Qureshi, Maulana Taj Mohammad Nahiyoo, Asmatullah Mehsood, Haji Sher Zaman, Amanullah Siyal, Sheikh Shaukat and Nizam Hyderi.

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