The Supreme Court on Thursday sought reply form Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) Chief Maulana Khadim Hussain Rizvi within a week on the Punjab government's appeal for cancellation of his bail. Earlier, the Additional Prosecutor General argued that the Lahore High Court (LHC) ignored facts and evidence of the case when granted bail to the respondent.
However, the prosecutor had no appropriate answer to a court's query about legal flaws in the LHC bail granting verdict. "What you are trying to tell us? We need to know legal points involved in it," the court annoyingly said to the prosecutor when he was talking about the anti-judiciary speeches by Rizvi.
"You are not conversant with the merits of the case. Who has drafted this appeal?" the court asked the prosecutor. Subsequently, the court adjourned the hearing for a week and sought reply from the TLP chief.
A division bench of the LHC on May 14 last had released Rizvi on bail with an observation that admittedly he was an infirm and incapacitated person and in this respect according to a report from National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) he was wholly incapable of moving his half body towards middle belt to foot.
The bench noted that the prosecution had not refuted the medical report. The bench had also granted bail to TLP patron-in-chief Pir Afzal Qadri on medical grounds. Civil Lines police had registered the FIR against the TLP leaders after they led violent protests against the acquittal of Christian woman Aasia Bibi from blasphemy charge.
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