Rawalpindi:
An anti-terrorist (ATC) Special Court on Friday, sentenced to 82 defendants, involved in disturbances during the protest of Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) in Islamabad on November 24 and 26, last year, but ordered its release when unearthed by its period of detention prior to the conviction against its sentence.
The special judge of ATC, Amjad Ali Shah, withdrew the charges of terrorism against the 82 convicts after his confession to the crimes, and unloaded the 24 cases registered against him. However, the court issued arrest orders for more than 1,000 defendants, who skipped the hearing.
The Court had convened a total of 1,609 accused in the 24 cases of disturbances, vandalism, caused fire, protest and blocking of roads in the D-Chowk of the Federal Capital on November 24 and 26, 2024 during the PTI protest. Of these cases, 15 were recorded in the Attock and Nine district in the Rawalpindi district.
A total of 568 defendants appeared in the Court. At the beginning of the hearing, the Prosecutor’s Office offered all the defendants who confessed to the crimes, would be released after their arrest would be taken as their mandate in jail.
At that time, the 82 PTI workers accepted this offer and confessed. The judge condemned men, ordering that the time dedicated to jail for these workers would be considered as the sentence. They were also acquitted of terrorism. Fines of RS2,000 were imposed against the people involved in police injuries.
However, the workers who refused to confess were formally accused and the court summoned the witnesses against him. To avoid the rush in the courtroom, the court established three days of the hearing on May 7, 8 and 9. In each day, eight cases would be heard.
For the remaining more than 1,000 absent, the court canceled its bail and issued its arrest orders. According to the law, his computerized national identity card was blocked and his bank accounts had frozen.
SC bail
The Supreme Court granted on Friday to the bail prior to the arrest to the leader of PTI Hafiz Farhat Abbas and approved the bond of the Senator of the Ejaz Chaudhry party, in cases related to the violent protests on May 9, 2023.
A three -members bank headed by Judge Naeem Akhtar Afghan heard cases. On Abbas’s plea, the petitioner’s lawyer informed the court that the bond prior to the arrest of Imtiaz Sheikh had also been approved by the Apex court.
The special prosecutor argued in the Court that the Court of First Instance had declared Abbas as a fugitive. However, Judge Afghan commented that the relevant court would analyze the matter if it was a fugitive or not, and added that when the investigation was completed, what was the need to stop the defendant?
In the request of Senator Chaudhry, the court approved the bond and ordered the petitioner to present a bonus of RS100,000 to the Court of First Instance. The Court was informed that Chaudhry had been arrested since May 11, 2023 for charges of inciting people and the conspiracy of hatching.
