ISLAMABAD: A judicial Justice of the Peace on Monday declared two PTI leaders — former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Ali Amin Gandapur and ex-Nationwide Meeting opposition chief Omar Ayub — absconders in two circumstances pertaining to the get together’s 2022 election.Haqeeqi Azadi March‘.
The march is one in all a number of protests that the get together has carried out following the ouster of PTI founder Imran Khan because the prime minister via a no-confidence vote in 2022.
Judicial Justice of the Peace Mubashir Hassan Chishti heard the 2 circumstances associated to the protest, registered at Islamabad’s Bara Kahu police station, declaring Ayub and Gandapur absconders and issuing their perpetual arrest warrants over their persistent absence from hearings.
Decide Chishti noticed that the 2 had failed to seem earlier than the court docket regardless of the issuance of summons a number of instances. Additionally they didn’t furnish any believable justification for his or her absence, the decide famous.
They have been summoned a number of instances, however they continued to evade the proceedings, the decide remarked.
Making these observations, he declared each PTI leaders absconders and directed the issuance of everlasting arrest warrants for them in order that they’re offered earlier than the court docket.
Over Gandapur and Ayub’s persistent absence from the proceedings, the court docket had formalized their standing as proclaimed offenders at a earlier listening to.
In the meantime, the court docket had acquitted a number of others accused within the case, together with PTI leaders Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Zartaj Gul, within the two circumstances on the idea of inadequate proof to determine their involvement within the allegations leveled by the police.
In response to the prosecution, the 2 circumstances have been registered in reference to alleged violations of legislation and order through theHaqeeqi Azadi March‘, with police claiming that the accused had incited folks to commit illegal actions and obstructed officers from performing their duties. The protection, nevertheless, had constantly maintained that the circumstances have been politically motivated.
