Pti sit-in petition: District admin made respondent

Justice Aamer Farooq asked the petitioner’s counsel as to who grants permission for such events to be held in capital

ISLAMABAD: The District Administration has been made a respondent in a legal challenge to the PTI’s planned protest.

The Islamabad High Court has allowed the amendment of a petition seeking the Islamabad High Court’s intervention to relocate the planned Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) demonstration to a public park.

When the case was taken up, Justice Aamer Farooq asked the petitioner’s counsel as to who grants permission for  such events to be held in the capital. Responding, the counsel named the capital administration and realized that it was not made a respondent in the case.

Subsequently, he requested the court to allow him to make the administration as respondent also.  The court allowed the plea.

Petitioners Muhammad Yaqoob and Shehzad Ahmed Mir, through their counsel Hasan Murtaza Mann, had approached the IHC after PTI Chairman Imran Khan announced a sit in.The petitioners had made the Ministry of Interior and PTI Chairman Khan respondents in the original petition.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 19^th, 2016.