By Adnan Rafique
ISLAMABAD: The spokesperson of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) said on Wednesday that a letter was sent to the Ministry of Interior for enhancing security measures after a group of lawyers stormed the high court’s building on February 8. The spokesperson said that the decision was taken to further increase security measures for the IHC building and the interior ministry was sent a letter for the deployment of more contingents of Rangers.
Additional contingents of 2,000 personnel of Rangers have been summoned at the Islamabad High Court (IHC) by the interior ministry following the request of the high court. The new contingents will arrive in Islamabad from Lahore today, the spokesperson added. A total of 200 Rangers officials and hundreds of police personnel are currently deployed in the high court’s premises. Yesterday, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had ordered the demolition of illegally constructed chambers of lawyers on the premises of district courts in the capital in F-8 Markaz. An IHC larger bench, headed by Chief Justice Athar Minallah, had ruled: “The encroachments on any state land and any construction thereon in violation of the Ordinance of 1960 and the rules or regulations made there under are illegal, void and liable to be removed forthwith.
