A division bench of the Lahore High Court here Thursday quashed sentence of an infamous character of Model Town incident, Gullu Butt. An anti-terrorism court in October 2014 had awarded a collective sentence of eleven-year-three-month to Shahid Aziz alias Gullu Butt under five sections of terrorist laws. The maximum punishment the court awarded to Butt was five-year jail term under section 7 of Anti Terrorism Act, 1997.
He was slapped three months under section 186 of PPC, two years under section 353 of PPC, two years under section 427 of PPC and two years under section 506 of PPC. As the punishment was to run concurrently, Butt was due to come out of jail after undergoing five-year sentence, the maximum punishment.
Now he would be out any time since the high court set aside the five-year term awarded under the section 7 ATA while he has completed his maximum imprisonment of two years under the PPC. Gullu Butt was accused of smashing private vehicles with a club outside Minhajul Quran Secretariat in Model Town. Police personnel had not stopped the Butt from carrying out his smashing spree rather they were witnessed facilitating him.
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