Two other gunmen of PTI candidate for PP-163 constituency were held for firearms display. PHOTO: EXPRESS
DIG Operations Shahzad Akbar said that FIR No. 456/18 has been registered against the pair, identified as Rizwan and Waseem, under Sections 188, 285 and 286 of the Pakistan Penal Code at Ghaziabad police station. An investigation is ongoing, he added.
Earlier in the day, police arrested two guards of the PTI candidate for PP-163, Bilal Aslam in the South Cantonment police precincts for display of arms. They were identified as Wajid Rehman and Arbaz Muhammad.
Child brutally tortured for 'tearing PTI election poster'
In view of Section 144 imposed in the city, display of arms and fireworks is banned in pursuance of the code of conduct of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Last week, the Bhakkar police arrested two men who allegedly tortured a four-year-old child for tearing up a poster of a PTI candidate.
On the same day, the ECP asked the PTI candidate for NA-80 (Gujranwala), Nasir Cheema, to explain why his election posters put up near Chiniot carried pictures of the army chief and the chief justice.
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