ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Umar was granted interim bail in Section 144 violation case registered against him for holding a rally on August 20 in federal capital. Umar along with party chief Imran Khan appeared before court after PTI senior leader and lawyer Babar Awan filed bail application in an additional sessions’ court. 

In application, Awan mentioned that Umar is ready to be a part of police investigation and contended petitioner was present in a Lahore rally at time when protest rallies were being held in different parts of country. Additional Sessions Judge Zafar Abbas presided over case and granted PTI secretary general bail in lieu of a surety bond of Rs 5,000. Six PTI members were granted interim bail a day earlier by additional sessions’ court in Section 144 violation case registered against them.

They maintained that provisions leaders were charged under were bailable and pleaded that bail be granted. Additional Sessions Court Judge Faizan Haider Gilani granted interim bail, against surety bonds of Rs 20,000 to PTI leaders after they approached court. Leaders granted bail included Saifullah Niazi, Ali Awan, Raja Khurram, Faisal Javed, Sadaqat Abbasi and Shahzad Waseem. According to PTI leaders’ lawyers, case against them was “baseless”, adding that rally was peaceful and cases were an “attempt to suppress” leaders.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 26 2022

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