Protest outside SC: PML-N MPA among party workers booked
FIR registered at Secretariat police station two days after protest; SHO suspended, two SPs removed
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ISLAMABAD:
A ruling party lawmaker along with two dozen workers and supporters of Pakistan-Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) have been booked for protesting outside the apex court and raising slogans against the chief justice, it emerged on Tuesday.
The workers had staged the protest outside the Supreme Court last Friday, shortly after the court announced its verdict placing a lifetime ban on former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from contesting elections.
While the protests took place on April 13, it took the police two days to register an FIR against the protesters. And even then, the matter did not come to light until Tuesday morning.
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The FIR, registered on behalf of a police patrolman, says the protesters chanted slogans against the chief justice in the parking area of the Supreme Court and also briefly blocked the road.
However, when they were asked by the assistant commissioner to disperse, the protesters complied.
In the FIR, which also includes the name of PML-N Punjab Assembly Member from Rawalpindi Tehseen Fawad, PML-N workers have been booked under Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) sections 148 (rioting with a deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), 188 (disobeying the order of a public servant), 228 (intentional insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceeding) and 341 (wrongful restraint by blocking a path).
However, there has been greater drama attached to the FIR than what its contents offer.
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Senior police officers suspended the Secretariat precinct station house officer Hakim Khan and removed SP Security Jamil Ahmed Hashmi and SP-City Ahmed Iqbal from their posts.
Hashmi, who has worked in the capital for 35 years, rising through the ranks, has also been transferred and his services have been surrendered to the Establishment Division for posting elsewhere. SP Iqbal has been directed to report to the IGP office.
The suspension and transfers came after the Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar summoned the Inspector General Islamabad Police Sultan Azam Temuri on Monday for a meeting.
Following the meeting, in which DIG Waqar Chohan accompanied Temuri, direction for the suspension and transfer were notified.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 18th, 2018.
A ruling party lawmaker along with two dozen workers and supporters of Pakistan-Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) have been booked for protesting outside the apex court and raising slogans against the chief justice, it emerged on Tuesday.
The workers had staged the protest outside the Supreme Court last Friday, shortly after the court announced its verdict placing a lifetime ban on former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from contesting elections.
While the protests took place on April 13, it took the police two days to register an FIR against the protesters. And even then, the matter did not come to light until Tuesday morning.
Abid Sher Ali, PML-N MPA booked over PTI worker's killing in Faisalabad
The FIR, registered on behalf of a police patrolman, says the protesters chanted slogans against the chief justice in the parking area of the Supreme Court and also briefly blocked the road.
However, when they were asked by the assistant commissioner to disperse, the protesters complied.
In the FIR, which also includes the name of PML-N Punjab Assembly Member from Rawalpindi Tehseen Fawad, PML-N workers have been booked under Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) sections 148 (rioting with a deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), 188 (disobeying the order of a public servant), 228 (intentional insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceeding) and 341 (wrongful restraint by blocking a path).
However, there has been greater drama attached to the FIR than what its contents offer.
Attempt on MPA’s life: PML-N leader among six booked
Senior police officers suspended the Secretariat precinct station house officer Hakim Khan and removed SP Security Jamil Ahmed Hashmi and SP-City Ahmed Iqbal from their posts.
Hashmi, who has worked in the capital for 35 years, rising through the ranks, has also been transferred and his services have been surrendered to the Establishment Division for posting elsewhere. SP Iqbal has been directed to report to the IGP office.
The suspension and transfers came after the Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar summoned the Inspector General Islamabad Police Sultan Azam Temuri on Monday for a meeting.
Following the meeting, in which DIG Waqar Chohan accompanied Temuri, direction for the suspension and transfer were notified.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 18th, 2018.