Court grants interim bail to 13 PTI leaders

LAHORE: An Anti-Terrorism Court docket (ATC) in Lahore Friday granted interim bail to 13 senior leaders of the PTI in a case referring to violence and riots throughout the occasion’s current “Azadi March” on Islamabad.

The ATC granted pre-arrest bail to former federal minister for schooling Shafqat Mehmood, Yasmin Rashid, Hammad Azhar, Murad Raas, Zubair Niazi, Mehmoodur Rasheed, Aijaz Chaudhry, Aslam Iqbal and others in opposition to surety bonds of Rs1 lakh every.

Speaking to journalists, after getting interim bail, PTI’s Hammad Azhar stated that the “imported authorities” was lodging circumstances in opposition to those that got here out to stage a peaceable protest which is their constitutional proper.

“Rana Sanaullah and Maryam Nawaz need to rework the nation right into a police fascist state,” he added.

Earlier within the day, the ATC issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of the senior leaders of the PTI in a case referring to the occasion’s lengthy march in direction of Islamabad.

The warrants have been issued over Shahdra police’s request.

The non-bailable arrest warrants in opposition to the PTI leaders have been issued “on the grounds that they’re deliberately concealing themselves as a way to keep away from their arrest and their arrest is critical for the completion of the investigation,” learn the choose’s order.

A number of PTI leaders together with Chairman Imran Khan, Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Common-Secretary Asad Umar, Imran Ismail and others have been booked for “rioting” throughout the occasion’s Might 25 lengthy march. Nevertheless, the Imran Khan, Asad Umar and another leaders acquired bails in these circumstances.