LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court Monday sent eight more lawyers on judicial remand, accused of attacking the Punjab Institute of Cardiology. Police produced the arrested lawyers before the court and sought physical remand to carry out investigation. However, the court sent the accused to jail on judicial remand. Shadman police had registered two FIRs against over 250 lawyers with the arrest of 46 lawyers. Some woman lawyers arrested from the crime scene were already released by the police. The FIRs were registered under Sections 148, 186, 290, 291, 324, 353 and 436 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) in addition to Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act 1997. Previously, the court had sent arrested lawyers to jail on judicial remand including Adnan Bhatti, Basharat Abbas, Sajjad Rasheed, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Azeem, Syed Zeeshan Ali, Mudassar Rasheed, Malik Muhammad Arshad, Junaid Arshad, Rana Islam, Muhammad Asad Suleman, Imran Naeem, Arshad Walayat, Ali Imran, Hassan Mirza, Hafiz Umair, Faheem Shaukat, Sheikh Irfan, Ali bin Khalid, Asad Zafar, Malik Farooq, Hafiz Tanveer, Dilawar, Ghayas Ahmad, Arsalan Raza, Turab Warraich, Mattiur Rehman, Rana Kausar, Sajid Hussain, Maqsood Ahmad, Hassan Ali, Hafiz Muhammad Shakil, Tayyab Rasool, Ali Raza, Umar Ghaffar, Waqas Ali, Fahad Sultan, Muhammad Shahbaz, Shehroze, Rana Muhammad Aslam and Asad Salman.
12-17-2019, 07:02 AM
Attack on PIC: 8 more lawyers sent on judicial remand
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