Model Town riots: State issued notice on Gullu Butt’s bail plea

Butt has sought suspension of his sentence.

LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench issued a notice to the state on Tuesday on a bail application by Shahid alias Gullu Butt, accused of vandalising public property during last year’s riots in Model Town.

Butt had filed an application for the suspension of an 11-year sentence awarded to him by an anti-terrorism court in October 2014. His counsel submitted that police had implicated him in the case under political pressure. He said there was sufficient evidence available to exonerate Butt.

The lawyer said Butt’s plea was unlikely to be fixed for hearing in the near future; therefore he might be granted bail until the matter was decided.

The court sought the record of the case and adjourned the hearing for a week.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 15^th, 2015.