Lahore:
In accordance with a recent order, anti-terrorism court (ATC) issued “release mandates” to the Superintendent of Kot Lakhpat central prison for the head of the PTI Shah Mahmood Qureshi, acquitted in two separate cases.
ATC judge, Manzar Ali Gill, issued the mandates in relation to the FIR 768/23 and 103/23, both inscribed after the arrest of the founder of the founder of the PTI, the founder of PTI, Imran Khan. Qureshi had been acquitted in business on August 11.
Addressing the prison superintendent, judge Gill said: “It is a question of authorizing and forcing you to release the accused Shah Mahmood Qureshi from this case, if
It is not required in any other case. “”
Separately, the judge of ATC Manzer Ali Gill issued a “mandate for commitment to imprisonment sentences”, leading the Superintendent of the Kot Lakhpat central prison to receive the leaders of the PTI Umar Sarfraz Cheema, Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Ejaz Chaudhry, Mian Mehmood Ur Rasheed and other people in detention. The superintendent was invited to execute his sentences in accordance with the law.
In his ordinance, the judge Gill also granted sentence to PTI legislators and workers, and ordered the confiscation of properties belonging to the former governor of PTI, Umar Sarfraz Cheema, Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Ejaz Chaudhry, Mian Mehmood Rasheed and other workers under section 7 (2) (ATA).
It should be noted that, according to judgments announced by the province’s ATCs, more than 120 PTI legislators and workers have lost their properties. Earlier, ATC in Faisalabad had ordered the confiscation of the properties of 90 convicted, while the Sargodha court, in two cases, had lost the properties of 30 convicted under article 7 (2) of the 1997 law against terrorism.
On May 9, 2023, the legislators and supporters of the PTI organized violent demonstrations across the country in reaction to the arrest of the founder of PTI, Imran Khan. These demonstrations included the vandalism of military installations and other buildings belonging to the State, in particular the house of the body commander in Lahore.
One day earlier, an ATC in Lahore unveiled its verdict in two separate cases of May 9, condemning certain key figures of the PTI.
The ATC, which held its procedure in a courtroom inside Kot Lakhpat prison in Lahore, however acquitted Qureshi in the two cases recorded as a result of riot incidents which broke out after the arrest of the founder of the PTI, Imran Khan, on May 9, 2023.
Lahore ATC-I Manzer judge Ali Gill unveiled his reserved verdict one week back in two cases related to the combustion of police vehicles in Rahat Bakery respectively near the house of Lahore Corps commander and the attack on the Shadman police station on May 9, 2023.
In the Rahat Bakery case, the judge acquitted seven of the 17 accused, including Shah Mahmood Qureshi, but condemned the others, including Cheema, Dr. Yasmin, Ejaz Chaudhry, Rashid to ten years in prison.
