Staff Reporter
An anti-terrorism court approved on Friday the interim bail of two PML-N workers in the NAB office violence case.
The bail of Tahirul Mulk and MNA Abid Kotla has been approved till November 23. Their lawyers argued that a fake case has been filed against them because of their political affiliation. They are being made a target of political victimization.
Others named in the case include Rana Sanaullah, Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar Awan, Saiful Malook Khokhar, and Faisal Khokhar among others. They have all been granted bail in the case.
A case was registered against the PML-N leaders for ‘manhandling policemen’ outside the NAB Lahore office on August 11. The violence erupted as Maryam Nawaz was scheduled to appear before the bureau in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.
The FIR was registered under sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 290 (punishment for public nuisance in cases not otherwise provided for), 440 (mischief committed after preparation made for causing death or hurt), and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty). Later, terrorism charges were added to the case too.
