Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Workers were charged with terrorism on Sunday at the counter-terrorism department (CTD) police station for damaging the capital’s judicial complex while PTI Chairman Imran Khan appeared in court in the Toshakhana case.
The case was filed under several different sections of 10 offenses, including terrorism against PTI activists who had been arrested and sought-after party leaders.
The first information report (FIR) mentioned about 17 leaders, including Ali Amin Gandapur, Murad Saeed, Aamir Mehmood Kiani, Asad Qaiser, Shibli Faraz, Asad Umar, Omar Ayub Khan, Ali Nawaz Awan, and Hassaan Niazi.
According to the FIR, the workers harmed the judicial complex’s main gate and police checkpoint.
Around 18 persons were detained for setting the judicial complex’s building on fire, throwing stones at it, and damaging it, according to the FIR.
Approximately two police cars, seven motorbikes, and the station house officer’s (SHO) official vehicle were all destroyed, it continued.
The police reportedly detained 20 persons for damaging and burning state-owned cars, according to the FIR, which also claimed that eight policemen’s anti-riot equipment, twenty rupees, and firearms were stolen.
A total of 19 persons were held at the same time for attacking police with rocks, acting violently, and throwing Molotov bombs.
