LAHORE 19 Mar (Online): A Lahore court on Sunday directed the police to present 102 detained PTI workers before an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) tomorrow, a day after they were arrested during the raid that took place at PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence when the police faced its way into his house.
Judicial Magistrate Ghulam Rasool of Lahore’s Cantt Katcheri court presided over the hearing today.
As Magistrate Ghulam Rasool directed the police to present the suspects before the ATC tomorrow because they had been booked on terror charges, he granted the police a one-day remand of the arrested PTI supporters.
Upon the hearing’s conclusion, the police took the suspects back amid high security.
Separately, unidentified PTI workers were booked on terror charges in a first information report (FIR) filed by a police official at Lahore’s Race Course police station.
Filed by Lahore Elite Force official Shehzada Ahmed Ali in the early hours of Sunday, the FIR accused PTI workers of stopping his government vehicle and raising slogans against state institutions.
It stated that as soon as the Elite Force’s car arrived at Canal Road near Zaman Park, “around 100-150 PTI workers armed with fire weapons [and] sticks came in front altogether and forcefully stopped the government vehicle”.
The FIR alleged that the workers hit the car with sticks and caused great damage.
Ali also alleged that one of the party workers stole the valuables the elite force personnel had with them — including bullet-proof jackets, helmets, wireless sets and mobile phones — “using weapon’s force”.
The complaint invoked sections 109 (punishment of abetment if the actabetted committed In consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment) 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with a deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 290 (punishment for public nuisance in cases not otherwise provided for), 291 (continuance of nuisance after injunction to discontinue), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 395 (punishment for dacoity), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees), and 440 (mischief committed after preparation made for causing death or hurt) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
It also included Section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
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