Lawyers have locked up the Sindh High Court as they are protesting against a female judge after she unearthed a scam in which water from a Karachi court’s RO filter plant was being illegally sold for profit.

A video clip shared on Twitter shows a large number of lawyers gathered outside the court building.

The clip is shared by Abdul Moiz Jaferii, who wrote: “Sindh high court right now, in continuation of a strike called to browbeat the chief justice into removing a female DJ of Malir who has refused to allow for an illegal commercial water bottling venture being run by the Malir Bar.”

The lawyers’ bodies stage sit-in outside Chief Justice’s chamber as closed the main doors of the court for everyone.

Moreover, they also lock up the central and Annexe buildings of the SHC. Government lawyers were also barred from entering the court.

They had threatened to go on strike and called for her transfer over her “behaviour”

Sadaf Khokhar, who is a District and Sessions Judge at the Malir court, had a notice posted at the court’s RO filter plant, saying it was prohibited to sell its water.

The permission to open an RO plant was sought in 2021 by the Malir Bar Association given the shortage of clean drinking water for the people visiting this court.

But last week, when supervising officer and senior civil judge Khurram Amin Khan paid a surprise visit to the RO plant, he found that a man named Hajan Ali was selling packed bottles of water from it.