Islamabad’s Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Abul Hasanat Muhammad Zul-Qarnain heard the post-arrest bail applications in a case registered against arrested PTI MNAs in Sangjani police station.
The court inquired from prosecutor Raja Zahid whether anything has been recovered from Sher Afzal Marwat, Ahmed Chatta and other MNAs who have been nominated in the case, to which the prosecutor replied that nothing has been recovered as yet.
Later, the court ordered the immediate release of the arrested MNAs by granting post-arrest bail with a bond of Rs 30,000.
Among the arrested PTI MNAs are Sher Afzal Marwat, Sheikh Waqas, Zain Qureshi, Ahmed Chatta, Aamir Dogar, Yusuf Khan, Naeem Ali Shah, Owais Haider Jakhar, Shah Ahad and Zubair Khan.
The prosecutor argued that the minimum sentence for the sections invoked in the case was three years, urging the judge to deny the bail.
However, PTI’s lawyer Sardar Masroof Khan countered that the sections invoked in the case were not applicable, stressing that the district administration had provided a No-Objection Certificates to the party for holding the Sangjani rally on September 8.
“The case was filed on political grounds and has nothing to do with reality,” Khan said.
