Bar Council AGM discusses police high-handedness
The Bar Council annual general meeting yesterday passed a resolution to condemn police high-handedness in dealing with suspects and criminals.
It expressed the council's concern over the high number of people shot dead, which averages about 1.3 death a week over the past 10 years, as well as about one death a week in police custody from 2000 to 2002.
The newly elected Bar Council president Khutubul Zaman Bukhari told a media conference after the meeting that the 2,078 lawyers who turned up at the AGM yesterday also called on the police to be more transparent about cases of the death of suspects while in their custody.
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