Two patrolling police officers were suspended by the National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) allegedly for stopping an anti-terrorism court judge from using the Sialkot Motorway that had been closed due to hazardous fog.
The NHMP had closed the Sialkot-Lahore motorway three days ago due to increased fog, as it could be hazardous. On Wednesday around 8:30 AM, an ATC judge and his accompanying police squad forcibly tried to cross the barricades that had sealed off the motorway.
Two motorway patrolling officers —Shakir Ali and Haider Ali— got a call from NHMP headquarters and stopped the judge at the next interchange and fined him for entering the closed motorway.
Viral footage from the event shows the judge making an angry phone call to someone and complaining about being stopped on the motorway. The judge was heard threatening to ‘hold court on the motorway’ and star terrorism proceedings against the patrolling officers.
The two officers were reportedly suspended the next day.
پاکستان نے برائے نام آزادی تو حاصل کر لی تھی مگر یہ سول سروس اُس نوآدیاتی نظام کی باقیات ہے جو اس ملک کی ترقی میں سب سے بڑی رکاوٹ ہے۔
یہ شخص معمولی جج ہے مگر انا، تکبر اور زبان چیک کریں۔
کیا کسی نے اس کی تربیت نہیں کی؟
کیا یہ کارِ سرکار میں مداخلت نہیں؟
pic.twitter.com/6dlnIe2QWw— Tahir Imran Mian ✈ (@TahirImran) December 1, 2022
ATC judge and his entourage needs to be suspended in this Chaudhry regime and the two patrolling officer need to be commended.
We say no one should be above the law but it seems some idiots want to be above their own and others safety as well.
Media ought to ask CM to stand with the highway police.
if the patrol allowed the judge to go and he met with an accident due to the fog, they would also have been suspended anyway. what a predicament to find your self in. enforce safety and face suspension!!!