Lahore:
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) to Sargodha condemned the worker of Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) Ismael Khan to life imprisonment and lost all his property in the State in the context of an anti-riot case of May 9 filed with the Mianwali police.
This is the third judgment among those delivered by anti -terrorist courts in which all of the convicted property was lost to the government. In total, 120 managers and PTI workers had their confiscked properties.
Previously, a Tribunal of Faisalabad pierced the properties of 90 convicted of the government, while 29 other persons allowed their properties pierced by the Sargodha court under article 7 (2) of the 1997 anti-terrorism law.
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On May 9, 2023, legislators and supporters of the PTI organized violent demonstrations across the country in response to the arrest of the founder of the Imran Khan party. The demonstrations involved vandalism of military facilities and buildings belonging to the State, in particular the house of the body commander in Lahore.
The case includes charges against 53 accused people, including eminent PTI legislators such as Omar Ayub (National Assembly) and Malik Ahmad Khan Bhachar (Punjab assembly).
However, two accused, Ayub and Ziaul Haq, initially sunk during their statements under article 342 of the CRPC. In addition, 50 other accused fled during the final arguments, which led to the separation of their case from that of the accused remaining after the publication of proclamations.
The ATC judge noted that attempts seemed to be made to delay the procedure by these abstracts, potentially indicating deliberate efforts to extend the decision of the case.
