Chief Justice (CJ) of Lahore High Court (LHC) Mr. Justice Mansur Ali Shah has stressed the need of promotion of good mutual working relationship between the bar and bench for providing the early and easy justice to the poor, oppressed and needy people in the society, besides, curbing the menace of injustice.
SIALKOT, (Pakistan Point News - 30th Jan, 2018) : Chief Justice (CJ) of Lahore High Court (LHC) Mr. Justice Mansur Ali Shah has stressed the need of promotion of good mutual working relationship between the bar and bench for providing the early and easy justice to the poor, oppressed and needy people in the society, besides, curbing the menace of injustice. He stated this while addressing an important meeting of the district judiciary held here on Tuesday.
District and Session Judge (DSJ) Sialkot, Malik Zulqarnain, DSJ Narowal Muhamamd Yousaf Aujla, ADSJs, civil judges and President Sialkot District Bar Association (DBA) Khawaja Irfanul Haq were also present on this occasion. The LHC Chief Justice revealed that both the judiciary and the lawyers’ community should play their pivotal role in ensuring smooth provision of justice and removing all the hurdles from this way. Justice Mansur Ali Shah also stressed the need of making all out sincere efforts to provide better working atmosphere with a sole aim to dispense the speedy justice to the needy, poor and oppressed people at their doorsteps, saying that the pleasant atmosphere was also vital to bring betterment in mutual working between the bar and the bench as well.
. Later, LHC Chief Justice Mansur Ali Shah visited the “Yaadgar-e-Shuhada” at Sialkot district jail and paid rich tributes to the judges who were martyred during an ambush with the prisoners-cum-captors in Sialkot jail tragedy on July 25, 2003(about fifteen years ago). He also offered Fateha for the eternal peace of the departed souls of the slain judges as well. CJ also stressed the need of early completion of the trial of Sialkot jail tragedy case, which had been lying pending at Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The Chief Justice also assured the local judiciary to play his role in getting the slain judges of Sialkot jail tragedy declared as the Martyrs officially. The local judiciary and senior judges had demanded the official status of Martyrs for the judges killed by the captors in Sialkot district jail tragedy about fifteen years ago. They also told the LHC Chief Justice that the trial of the case of Sialkot jail tragedy had been lying pending at Supreme Court of Pakistan for the last several years. They also demanded the early completion of this trial as well.
