Addressing the meeting, Syed Zia Alumdar Hussain, President FCCI said that the demand of divisional bench is an unfinished agenda of many previous governments who had been repeatedly cheating people to provide them this facility but with ill intension.
He told that Prime Minister Imran Khan has also supported this demand but now the people are being offered to accept only a registry office of high court instead of a full-fledged divisional bench of Lahore High Court.
He said that the registry office is neither our demand nor it fulfills the requirement of people of Faisalabad division who want justice at their doorsteps. He said that some mafias are opposing this genuine demand for their own vested interests.
He said that Lahore High Court is currently responsible to provide justice to 50 million population of this area.
"It is practically impossible for it to cater to the need of the litigants belonging to this division", he said and remarked that a huge chunk of cases are experiencing inordinate delay, which is tantamount to deny justice to the needy people.
He said that Islamabad High Court has been established for only a population of 2 million whereas the population of Faisalabad city alone is around 4 million excluding its tehsils and rural areas.
Syed Zia Alumdar Hussain clarified that the demand of divisional bench of high court is the unanimous demand of the people of Faisalabad division and it should not be ignored by tagging it as a demand of lawyer's alone.
He said that government should immediately accept it and direct the concerned quarters to establish the bench at the earliest.
Rohail Zafar Kainth, Secretary DBA said that the lawyers' community is on strike for the last two months in line with the aspirations of the people of Faisalabad division. He said that peoples are denied of justice but government has become a hard nut to crack.
He said that some elements had floated a mischievous stunt of the establishment of a registry just to hijack the actual demand of divisional bench. He said that unity among lawyers, business community and people at large had foiled this conspiracy and now all segments are unanimously demanding that they would not accept any other alternative to the divisional bench.
He said that delay in the establishment of bench is eroding the political prestige of government and peoples are forced to think that the present government is also towing the same policy of wait and see.
The representatives of the trade bodies resolved that they would not accept any alternative to the high court bench and they are ready to go strike if government failed to respond positively to their peaceful struggle.