Former intelligence official and Chairman of the Defence for Human Rights, Khalid Khwaja was released from Adiala Central Jail after 54 days in prison here on Tuesday. Anti-Terrorist court has granted him bail in different cases during the Lal Masjid episode in July.
Khalid Khwaja was allegedly arrested by Aabpara Police on July 05 from his residence, under sections 6 and 7 of the Anti-Terrorist Act and other sections 302, 109 and 324 and the FIR filed in Police Station against Khalid Khwaja for firing on people from Lal Masjid on July 03, in which more than a dozen people died.
Although the prosecution failed to argue in favour of the cases filed against Khalid Khwaja, Chaudhry Habibur Rehman, Judge of the Anti-Terrorist Court-1 granted bail to Khalid Khwaja after the defence counsel Shaukat Siddiqui pleaded before the court about the fake case filed against Khalid Khwaja and the members of Maulana Aziz's family.
Prior prosecution had pleaded before ATC that the FIR against Khalid Khwaja was filed on eye witness account as constable Aslam of Aabpara police has himself seen Khwaja firing from Lal Masjid. Khalid Khwaja had been at the forefront in the struggle for the release of hundreds of missing people under the banner of his organisation Defense for Human Rights.