The court also directed the Deputy Commissioner Islamabad and PTI's MNA Asad Umar to sit together and made a such strategy under which police could not exceed the legal ambit and the protesters could also not take the law into their hands.
A single member bench of IHC comprising Justice Athar Minallah issued the directive while hearing a petition of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Asad Umar against imposition of Section 144 in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT).
During the course of hearing, an official of ICT, apprised the bench that the police had occupied 62 schools and out of them 46 were got vacated and remaining 16 schools would be vacated soon.
To this, the Judge observed that the prolonged stay of policemen in schools is damaging the education of students who had nothing to do with the sit-ins.
However, counsel for PTI's informed the bench that the hundreds of Policemen were called from Punjab, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Frontier Constabulary in the capital to manage the protest sit-ins.
He prayed the court to declare imposition of section 144 in the capital is illegal and bar the administration from taking any action against the protestors.