ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday sentenced 11 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers, including a sitting Member of the National Assembly (MNA) and a former Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA), to a combined 27 years and four months in prison in a May 9 riots case.
ATC Judge Tahir Abbas Sipra announced the reserved verdict in a case registered at Ramna police station, handing down a 27-year and 4-month sentence along with fines to MNA Abdul Latif, former MPA Wazir Zada Kalashi, and nine other PTI activists.
Following the announcement of the verdict, police took four of the accused — Mohammad Akram, Meera Khan, Shahzaib, and Sohail Khan — into custody from the courtroom, while the court issued arrest warrants for the absconding co-accused.
The court found the convicts guilty of attacking the police station, firing at police officers, throwing stones, attempting to kill law enforcement personnel, and setting motorcycles on fire to gain their objectives.
The court also noted that 24 witnesses testified against the accused, and proper identification parades were conducted before magistrates.
The order says that if police stations in the capital are attacked, there will be no place left in the country that is safe to live in.
According to the judgment, five years in prison and a Rs50,000 fine for attempted murder of police personnel, four years and Rs40,000 fine for setting motorcycles on fire, another four years and Rs40,000 fine for setting the police station ablaze, three months for obstructing police duties, one month for violating Section 144, two years for committing crimes in a mob, and 10 years with a Rs200,000 fine under terrorism charges.
The FIR was registered under sections148 (rioting with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 186 (obstructing public servant), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 324 (attempted murder), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 427 (mischief causing damage amounting to Rs50), 436 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy property), 440 (Mischief committed after preparation made for causing death or hurt)of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act registered at Ramna police station.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
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