PHC orders release of Mufti Kifayatullah.

MANSEHRA -- The Peshawar High Court's Abbottabad Circuit Bench on Tuesday ordered Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl leader Mufti Kifayatullah's release on bail bond of Rs100,000.

'The PHC bench has granted bail to Mr Kifayatullah in all three cases lodged against him by police under various sections of law,' Bilal Khan, counsel for Kifayatullah, told mediapersons here.

A two-member bench comprising Justice Shakeel Ahmad and Justice Ahmad Ali Khan announced the verdict after Kifayatullah's counsel and additional advocate general concluded their arguments.

The court also ordered Kifayatullah to submit a surety bond of Rs100,000 with the local magistrate that he would not challenge the government's writ about Covid-19 pandemic.

Asks him to submit bond he would not challenge govt writ

Advocate Bilal Khan told mediapersons that his client Mufti Kifayatullah had raised voice for a respectable burial of those who died of Covid-19. He said the court also ordered his client to abide by orders issued by the government from time to time in connection with Covid-19 pandemic.

The police had arrested the JUI-F leader when he was returning his home in Tarangri village from Mansehra town after leading funeral of his party's deputy district chief Shah Abdul Aziz, who had died of Covid-19 on April 14.

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