Banners case: Court to take up MoP chairperson’s bail plea today
A driver and an outdoor advertiser are still in jail on judicial remand
A driver and an outdoor advertiser are still in jail on judicial remand. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD:
A sessions court will take up a post-arrest bail plea of the Move on Pakistan (MoP) party Chairperson Mohammad Kamran in the controversial banners case today (Tuesday).
The Secretariat police had arrested Kamran and two other party officials, Ali Raza and Asif Iqbal, earlier this month for putting up controversial banners in parts of the federal capital.
A driver and an outdoor advertiser who were hired by the party to put up the banners were also arrested.
The suspects were given into police custody and later sent to Adiala jail on a judicial remand.
Kamran, however, had filed a post-arrest bail application.
On Friday, Additional District and Sessions Judge Abida Sajjad took up the plea and adjourned the case till August 23rd.
The banners that sprang up overnight in major cities of the country a few weeks ago had pictures of army chief General Raheel Sharif asking him to impose martial law in the country.
The Secretariat police had registered a case against unidentified persons for displaying the banners in the capital on June 14 and arrested a driver and an outdoor advertiser the next day.
The two are still in jail on judicial remand. The suspects have been booked for “sedition”, “conspiracy” and for “statements conducing to public mischief”.
However, nobody has been formally charged yet. Cases against MoP have also been registered in Rawalpindi, Faisalabad and Lahore.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2016.
A sessions court will take up a post-arrest bail plea of the Move on Pakistan (MoP) party Chairperson Mohammad Kamran in the controversial banners case today (Tuesday).
The Secretariat police had arrested Kamran and two other party officials, Ali Raza and Asif Iqbal, earlier this month for putting up controversial banners in parts of the federal capital.
A driver and an outdoor advertiser who were hired by the party to put up the banners were also arrested.
The suspects were given into police custody and later sent to Adiala jail on a judicial remand.
Kamran, however, had filed a post-arrest bail application.
On Friday, Additional District and Sessions Judge Abida Sajjad took up the plea and adjourned the case till August 23rd.
The banners that sprang up overnight in major cities of the country a few weeks ago had pictures of army chief General Raheel Sharif asking him to impose martial law in the country.
The Secretariat police had registered a case against unidentified persons for displaying the banners in the capital on June 14 and arrested a driver and an outdoor advertiser the next day.
The two are still in jail on judicial remand. The suspects have been booked for “sedition”, “conspiracy” and for “statements conducing to public mischief”.
However, nobody has been formally charged yet. Cases against MoP have also been registered in Rawalpindi, Faisalabad and Lahore.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2016.