Rs250 loss caused to public properties by PTI workers in capital
Zubair Qureshi
City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi Syed Khalid Mahmood Hamdani said on Sunday all those involved in “heinous crimes” in the May 9 riots on the instigation of their leaders would be traced and booked according to the law of the land.
Speaking at a press conference, Rawalpindi CPO assured that no innocent person would be implicated and each step would be taken on the basis of digital evidence and after complete scrutiny. The Pindi police had so far arrested 264 people in 17 cases while 76 have been arrested in case number 708 RA Bazar (GHQ case).
The CPO added that though there were big and small incidents of violent protest and attacks, the main incident was the attack on the GHQ gate. The arrests are being made through identification via video cameras and the person seen throwing petrol in the video has also been nabbed. Likewise, the person who instigated the crowd to move towards the GHQ gate is also behind bars, he added.
The CPO maintained that among the miscreants arrested a day earlier (Saturday) were Ehsan, Abdullah, Idris, Waqas, Ayaz, Qamar-ul-Zaman, Umar, Ali Hussain, Farhadullah, Asmat, Abu Bakr, Qamar Zaman, Sajjad Munir, Nabil, Sadaqat, Noman, Aamir Shahid, Farhad, Shehryar, Lal Shah, Akmal, Adeel, Pirzada Shehbaz, Arshad, Manawar and Syed Qamar.
He informed that during the riots, the highways continued to function as per usual and the security of important installations remained intact, adding that the Metrobus suffered a loss of Rs800 million.
Moreover, the Islamabad Police on Sunday gave details of the loss caused to the public and private properties, vehicles and buildings during the violent protests by the PTI protesters on May 9 and 10 in the federal capital.
