ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) on Wednesday granted activist and lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband Hadi Ali Chattha pre-arrest bail. The case dates again to July and resurfaced a day earlier.
On Tuesday, the 2 had filed pre-arrest bail functions, which couldn’t be taken up on an pressing foundation because the couple struggled to keep away from arrest. The case pertains to a protest by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC).
Islamabad Excessive Courtroom Bar Affiliation (IHCBA) President Syed Wajid Ali Gilani took the 2 to his workplace and warranted them of full security, stating that no arrest would happen from inside the bar premises.
The couple took refuge within the IHCBA president’s workplace, the place they spent the entire evening, whereas a lot of police officers remained outdoors the premises.
Throughout the listening to on Wednesday, Justice Muhammad Azam Khan took up the pre-arrest software and accepted Mazari and Chattha’s bail in opposition to surety bonds of Rs10,000 every.
Advocate Kamran Murtaza appeared on behalf of the petitioners, and a lot of legal professionals and officers from the IHCBA had been current within the courtroom in solidarity with the candidates.
Addressing the court docket, Murtaza mentioned that this was the primary time within the nation’s judicial historical past {that a} lady needed to spend the evening on court docket premises, including that he personally felt liable for what occurred.
“If there had been an previous case, they might have arrested her first,” he mentioned, including that the petitioners had been showing in varied circumstances since July.
“You’re the custodian of the excessive court docket. You could be sure that nobody is taken away from right here,” the protection counsel pleaded with the decide.
“We aren’t enemies of the nation. As a lot as you may have the precise, I even have the precise to be on this constructing,” advocate Murtaza mentioned.
He requested that the court docket grant protecting bail and sought instructions that no arrest needs to be made in every other case until it has been formally positioned on report.
In response to his request, Justice Khan noticed, “I’m passing orders solely to the extent of the FIR that’s earlier than me.”
Subsequently, Justice Khan granted protecting bail to Mazari and Chattha and restrained police from arresting them within the case.
