LHC reserves decision in sedition case against student

The Lahore High Court is likely to announce decision tomorrow on post-arrest bail petition of Alamgir Wazir a student in a sedition case lodged against him for participating in “Student Solidarity March”. It is worth mentioning here that student is nephew of MNA and Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement leader Ali Wazir.
Justice Asjad Javed Ghural reserved the decision on Tuesday after petitioner’s counsel and an additional prosecutor concluded their arguments.
Alamagir was facing charges of participating “Student Solidarity March” and Civil Lines police had lodged the case against him and others under section 124-A of Pakistan Penal Code which deals the offence of sedition.
Other sections 290 (public nuisance) and 291 (continuance of nuisance after injunction to discontinue in addition to offences under Punjab Sound System (Regulations) Act 2015 and Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance 1960 were also included in the FIR.
Counsel of the accused termed the allegations leveled against his client as absurd, malicious and baseless. He was of the view that his client was implicated in a fabricated and frivolous case.
He pointed out that the offences listed in the FIR were either bailable or carried lesser punishment in which release on bail was a norm rather than exception.