LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court Thursday granted bail to 17 lawyers arrested on the charges of attacking Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC).
The investigation officer produced the case record before the court. The judge after examining the case record and hearing arguments of both parties granted bail to the accused persons. Previously, the court had sent 46 lawyers, 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 on judicial remand.
Shadman police had registered two FIRs against more than 250 lawyers and arrested 46. 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.
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