LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Thursday dismissed post-arrest bail petition of student Alamgir Wazir, nephew of MNA and Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement leader Ali Wazir, in a sedition case.
Civil Lines police had registered a case against Wazir and other prominent participants of “Student Solidarity March” under Section 124-A of Pakistan Penal Code which deals with the offence of sedition. Before the judge announced the verdict, a deputy prosecutor general presented forensic report of the alleged objectionable speech by the petitioner saying the voice matching had been done.
Petitioner’s counsel Asad Jamal, however, argued that the petitioner had not denied the speech but the question involved in the case was whether the content of the speech fell within the definition of sedition. And this question was to be decided at trial not at the bail stage, he added. Justice Asjad Javed Ghural, however, dismissed the bail petition for which a detailed order will be released soon.
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