- Imaan Mazari, her husband Chatha arrested on Monday.
- IHC Chief Justice Farooq and Justice Imtiaz hear case.
- Two-member bench hears plea in opposition to bodily remand.
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) has despatched outstanding human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari and her husband, advocate Haadi Ali Chatha, on judicial remand within the “safety breach” case.
IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz heard the plea in opposition to the couple’s bodily remand, with legal professionals Qaiser Imam and Zainab Janjua representing Mazari and Chatha in courtroom.
In the course of the proceedings, the prosecutor introduced the remand request and likewise learn the courtroom order. The IHC CJ then requested the prosecutor whether or not it was appropirate, at which the regulation officer replied in affirmative.
The 2-member bench then, in a brief order, declared the prior bodily remand null and void and directed the defendants to be despatched to jail on judicial remand.
The IHC had already suspended an anti-terrorism courtroom’s (ATC) order that had despatched the lawyer couple to jail for 3 days.
The duo — Mazari and her husband — have been arrested within the federal capital on Monday after they tried to take away the street blockades positioned for the visiting England group’s site visitors protocol final week.
The FIR registered in opposition to them contains Sections 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public capabilities), 148 (rioting, armed with a lethal weapon), 149 (each member of illegal meeting responsible of the offence dedicated in prosecution of frequent object) and 353 (assault or felony pressure to discourage public servant from discharge of his responsibility) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) together with Part 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
Moreover, the FIR — registered on the grievance of Sub-Inspector Tanveer Athar — additionally included PPC’s Sections 506(ii) (punishment for felony intimidation) and 120B (punishment for felony conspiracy).
It said {that a} route was mounted for worldwide groups’ — which benefit from the standing of a state visitor in order to guard them in opposition to any terror assaults — to commute at Faisal Avenue when Imaan eliminated the limitations and provoked the folks there.
The suspect, it provides, known as for the barrier to be eliminated and began shouting when one other lawyer — her husband Hadi, — additionally arrived on the scene and began hurling threats to the law enforcement officials.
Imaan’s husband abused and slapped a policeman, in keeping with the FIR.