FEROZEWALA: A lawyer who is a member of Punjab Bar Council (PBC) was presented in the court on Friday by the same lady constable whom he slapped a day earlier.

A day before, advocate Ahmed Mukhtar tried to park his car at an undesignated spot outside Ferozewala Courts, upon which, constable Faiza Nawaz requested him to park the vehicle somewhere else as parking it here would cause inconvenience for other visitors. Ahmed got enraged on this and started hurling abuses, later he slapped the constable across her face.

District police officer (DPO) Sheikhupura, Ghazi Salahuddin, promptly took notice of this incident and directed police to register a first information report (FIR) against Ahmed.

Acting on DPO’s orders, Ferozewala police arrested Mukhtar and locked him up in jail.

Police also pasted posters of the lawyer on important streets of the city in which he could be seen wearing handcuffs.

On Friday. the same constable he slapped presented him in the court by holding the chain of his handcuffs.

The local court, however, approved Mukhtar’s bail request.