A video claiming to show a a group of lawyers manhandling a judge is going viral on Twitter, with users expressing disappointment over state of affairs in courtrooms.
It became difficult for judges to deliver the justice to seekers against the wishes and desires of influential or ruling group of lawyers.
The litigants prefer to hire the President of General Secretary of Bar to get immediate relief . Such incidents became a routine matter. Some users posted the video with the caption that the incident took place at a banking court in Lahore, without elaborating on the circumstances which triggered the situation. Commenting on the video, senior journalist Mazhar Abbas wrote "When you don't make your own community accountable, when Bars Associations remain silent or rather defend them, one can expect even worst".Name of the judge being manhandled in the undated video is yet to be known.
"This is what happens to judges at the hands of lawyers in Pakistan," wrote another journalist
based in Islamabad.
