Police arrest 23 for roadblock, protest

Cases registered against 150 PTI workers

DIJKOT:

The police have arrested 23 people and registered cases against 150 workers, including a brother of an MPA of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on the charge of participating in a rally by blocking a road and raising slogans against the government.

In the report filed by Ghulam Mohammadabad Police Station ASI Abdullah Sajid, it was stated that about 45 people including Mian Azad Ahmed Castro, brother of MPA Khayal Castro, Asim Ansari, and Rana Abid, took out a rally on motorbikes with PTI flags, blocked a road at Raja Chowk and raised slogans against the government.

The police arrested 11 people on the occasion.

The D Type Colony police also registered a case against 35 people, including Abdul Saboor, Najeeb, and Mohammad Tahir, for shouting slogans against the government after blocking a road at Ghousia Chowk and arrested five of them.

In another incident in the Madina Town, about 40 people, including Muhammad Tayyab, Umar Farooq and Nauman, participated in a rally on motorcycles, allegedly resorted to aerial firing and shouted slogans against the government. The police arrested seven of the protesters.