A local court here on Tuesday sent 92 workers of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) to jail on judicial remand, a private TV channel reported.
They workers had been arrested a day earlier for trying to block an armoured vehicle carrying party chief Khadim Rizvi following his appearance before an anti-terrorism court (ATC).
Rizvi had been brought a day earlier to the ATC for the hearing of a case registered against him and five other party leaders for damaging public property during violent protests against a Supreme Court verdict that acquitted Asia Bibi in a high-profile blasphemy case last year.
Judicial Magistrate Ahmed Nadeem Niazi heard the case regarding the 92 workers at Cantt Kachhery as the ATC was shut due to the public holiday on account of Kashmir Day.
A case was registered against the 92 workers at the Race Course Police Station under sections 290, 291, 147, 149, 186, 353 and 427 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, Section 16 of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) and Section 6 of the Punjab Sound Systems Regulation Act, 2015.
In his written order, the magistrate said the investigation against the workers was still underway. They are to be presented in the ATC again on February 19 under Section 173 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
Published in Daily Times, February 6th 2019.
