LAHORE: About 250 lawyers have been booked under various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act for attacking the Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Thursday.
Police have booked the lawyers in two cases on charges of torturing doctors, attendants as well as damaging police vehicles and hospital property.
Police say one case has been registered on the complaint of an hospital official while other was filed on behalf of them.
On Wednesday, six patients being treated at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) were died and Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan was manhandled after a violent protest by lawyers on the premises.
The under-treatment patients, stated to be in precarious condition, were left unattended by the hospital staff when the lawyers entered into the emergency ward of the facility. As a result, six of them breathed their last.
Police arrested over a dozen lawyers who also tried to kidnap the provincial information minister arrived at the hospital to settle the matter.
Sources said that the lawyers had protested against a video that was doing rounds on social media. In the said video, a doctor had leveled allegations against lawyers.
