MPA among 11 PTI activists remanded in police custody in terrorism case.

KARACHI -- While police booked scores of workers and leaders of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in terrorism cases for staging protest demonstrations against the siege and operation carried out to arrest their party chief Imran Khan in Lahore, an antiterrorism court on Wednesday remanded an MPA and 11 activists belonging to the party in police custody for staging a sit-on on Native Jetty Bridge.

Police had registered cases under Sections of 148 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 324 (attempted murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 at the Peerabad, Docks and many more police stations on the behalf of the state.

A day earlier, a PTI-Karachi spokesperson had claimed arrest of around 20 party workers by law enforcement agencies and injuring of over 12 others, including elderly ones in police action.

As part of countrywide protests against tear gas shelling and baton charge by police and other law enforcement agencies outside Imran Khan's Zaman Park residence, the party staged sit-ins across the metropolis.

Police book scores of opposition workers under terror law for staging protests

On Wednesday, the police produced before the administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts a held PTI MPA, Shah Nawaz Jadoon, and 11 workers in connection with allegedly staging a violent protest and causing terror on the Native Jetty Bridge.

The investigating officer requested for their 14-day physical remand for questioning and completing investigation.

While declining the IO's request for two-week remand, the judge granted physical custody of the suspects to the IO for two days for interrogation with direction to produce them on the next date and also file an investigation report.

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