Bail Denied: Suspect arrested outside courtroom

ISLAMABAD: Police on Friday arrested a man who had been booked in July for assaulting a person in Phulgaran.  Muhammad Shahzad was arrested outside a courtroom after his bail-before-arrest application was dismissed by Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Raja Khurram Ali Khan. His co-accused Muhammad Hashim, Muhammad Ishaq and Muhammad Qasim, however, were granted bail. The suspects had been booked by the Bhara Kahu police on August 5. Meanwhile, the same court acquitted a man arrested on a murder charge. Imtiaz Khan had been booked by the Khanna police on charges of murder and rioting. The court, however, acquitted him after the prosecution failed to prove the charge.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 22^nd, 2016.