Monitoring Desk
LAHORE: Three cases have been registered against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Lahore over vandalizing public property and inciting violence against the government and law-enforcement agencies.
According to Punjab police, the provisions of hooliganism and setting the public property on fire were included in the cases.
Cases registered against the PTI
The first case was registered against the PTI on the complaint of the sector in-charge of Lahore traffic police for setting police motorcycles and official records on fire.
“At the instigation of the PTI senior leadership, 300 workers set the sector office of traffic police on Mall Road on fire,” the text of the first information report (FIR) read. The provisions of harming public vehicles, causing traffic jams, and spreading horror were included in the FIR.
“We reached Imran Khan’s residence in Zaman Park with his arrest warrants. Around 2,500 PTI workers threw petrol bombs at police at the behest of Imran Khan. The PTI workers also threw stones at policemen and beat them with sticks on the orders of their leadership,” it added. The second case was registered for vandalizing an Elite Force vehicle and snatching a bulletproof jacket from a police official.
“The aggressive PTI workers subjected Elite Police official Asif to torture. They snatched a bulletproof jacket from Punjab police official Waheed,” the text of the FIR read. The third case was filed against the PTI at the Race Course police station. The provisions of terrorism, vandalizing public property, causing traffic jams, and spreading terror were included in the case.
“The PTI workers pelted policemen with stones and beat them with sticks on the orders of the leadership,” the text of the FIR read.
“DIG Shahzad Bukhari and other Punjab police officers were wounded in the attack by the PTI workers. Station House Officers Imran Qamar, Shoaib Khan, Shabir Awan, Mohammad Nadeem Tahir, and Ashfaq Khan were also wounded. The PTI leadership incited violence against the government and law-enforcement agencies,” it added.
A case has been registered against the PTI chief and other party leaders at the Race Course police station on the complaint of Station House Office. The FIR carries 20 sections including Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act. The other sections cover interference in state affairs, refusing to receive court summons and illegal gathering, on the complaint of SHO Rehan Anwar. It maintained that the PTI workers damaged state properties and also used petrol bombs against the law-enforcers.
