KARACHI: The administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts remanded on Monday the chief of All Pakistan Shia Action Committee to prison in a case pertaining to instigation to violence.
Allama Mirza Yusuf Hussain, a former leader of the Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM), with others has been booked for allegedly instigating people to violence in Sharifabad after the murder of civil rights campaigner Khurram Zaki in May.
Police arrested the Shia cleric on Sunday and produced him before the ATCs’ administrative judge to seek his custody for the arrest of the absconders. The investigating officer named Jibran Nasir and Samar Abbas as absconding accused in the remand papers.
The court sent the suspect to prison on judicial remand, but directed the jail authorities to allow the IO to interrogate him at the detention facility between sunrise and sunset.
According to the prosecution, scores of people and leaders of the MWM were taking the coffin of Zaki to CM House in a procession and when it reached a bridge in Sharifabad, Allama Yusuf spoke to the participants that triggered a violent protest.
A case was registered under sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees), 337-H (punishment for hurt by rash or negligent act) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 6/7 of the Sindh Sound (Regulation) Act, 2015, commonly known as the Loudspeaker Act, read with Section 7 of the Anti-terrorism Act, 1997.
MWM leader gets bail
A judicial magistrate granted on Monday bail to two suspects in another case.
Police submitted that they arrested MWM leader Ahmed Iqbal Rizvi and Ahmer Abbas on Sunday for allegedly blocking a thoroughfare, rioting, illegally using loudspeaker during a protest at the Numaish traffic intersection over the arrest of former PPP senator Faisal Raza Abidi.
The IO produced them before the court of a judicial magistrate (east) and the court granted them bail against a surety of Rs10,000 each. The case was registered at the Soldier Bazaar police station.
November 8th, 2016 DAWN News
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