- Case pertains to arson of police autos on Could 9, 2023.
- Court docket proclaims verdict reserved after ultimate arguments.
- Improvement provides to authorized woes of jailed PTI leaders.
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court docket (ATC) on Saturday sentenced 4 senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders, Dr Yasmin Rashid, Omar Sarfraz Cheema, Mahmood ur Rashid and Ejaz Chaudhry, to 10 years imprisonment, and acquitted former international minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi of all expenses in a Could 9 case associated to the burning of police autos.
ATC Choose Manzar Ali Gul introduced the reserved verdict inside Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore, the place the accused are being held.
The case is linked to the burning of police autos throughout the Could 9, 2023, unrest and had been filed in opposition to 22 accused, together with Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Dr Yasmin Rashid and Ejaz Chaudhry amongst others.
The court docket had reserved its verdict after the completion of ultimate arguments by the defence legal professionals. In the course of the proceedings, the prosecution had recorded statements of 37 witnesses earlier than the case moved to the ultimate arguments stage.
The event provides to the mounting authorized woes confronted by the Imran Khan-founded PTI, which has seen scores of leaders getting jail sentences over the Could 9 riots whereas a number of others, together with the previous prime minister, stay behind bars in a plethora of circumstances.
It could be famous that Rashid, Cheema and Chaudhary are among the many ones who’ve been discovered responsible in different Could 9 circumstances earlier as nicely.
Could 9 riots
Hundreds of supporters of Imran Khan stormed public property and army installations, together with the Corps Commander Home in Lahore, on Could 9, 2023, in protest in opposition to the previous premier’s arrest.
The riots erupted after the PTI founder was taken into custody from the premises of the Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) in a graft case.
In the course of the unrest, the supporters of Khan — the one prime minister in Pakistan’s historical past to be ousted through a no-confidence vote — focused civil and army installations, together with the Common Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.
A number of PTI leaders and employees have been launched on bail after their arrests, whereas many stay behind bars.
