Qureshi, Swati get protective bail.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court on Monday granted interim protective bail to PTI vice president Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Senator Azam Swati in criminal cases registered against them by the Islamabad police.

Mr Qureshi sought bail in two cases, while Swati in one FIR on charges of attacking police teams and damaging public property. The section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 was violated in these cases.

Both leaders appeared before a two-judge bench along with their lawyers.

The lawyers told the bench that the petitioners wanted to join the investigation but the police were bent upon arresting them.

The bench headed, by Justice Syed Shahbaz Ali Rizvi, granted the protective bail to both petitioners till March 27 with a direction to them to appear before the court of relevant jurisdiction for pre-arrest bail before the next hearing.

An anti-terrorism court granted interim pre-arrest bail to PTI leader Jamshed Iqbal Cheema and his wife Musarrat Iqbal Cheema in a case of attacking police parties with petrol bombs and stones outside the Zaman Park residence of former prime minister Imran Khan.

Judge Ijaz Ahmad Buttar restrained the police from arresting the petitioners till April 4 and summoned a record of the case against them.

The judge also directed the petitioners to join the police investigation.

REMAND: An anti-terrorism court on Monday sent 102 workers of the PTI to jail on judicial remand for their identification parade in a case of attacking, hurling stones and petrol bombs on the police personnel and vehicles outside the Zaman Park.

The Racecourse police produced the arrested workers before the court and sought permission to shift them to jail for their identification parade.

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