Asad Umar, who is afraid of being arrested, petitions the IHC for protective bail.
IHC is asked to hear the matter today by the secretary general of the PTI.
After charges were brought against him in Lahore, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Asad Umar submitted a precautionary bail application to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday.
The PTI leader asked the IHC to hear the protective bail appeal today out of fear that he will be arrested during the ongoing campaign against PTI leadership and workers. In the high court, Umar also had his biometrics checked.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan, other PTI leaders, and party members were arrested in a terrorist case for torching government cars, assaulting police, and stealing their firearms a day earlier at Islamabad’s Golra Sharif police station.
In addition, following the filing of a case against Imran and other party leaders as well as employees under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act at the CTD station, the federal capital police arrested 14 more PTI activists in various raids.
On March 18, when the PTI leader and 4,000 activists arrived at the G-11 Judicial Complex to appear before a district and sessions court in the Toshakhana case—in which he was accused of hiding information about the gifts he had received from the depository in asset declarations submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which had then filed a complaint against him—intense clashes had broken out between police and PTI workers.
In a related event, three complaints were filed against the PTI leadership and members for fighting with the elite force and other law enforcement officers and damaging official vehicles during the Zaman Park operation in Lahore.
Rioting, violence against law enforcement, terrorism, attempted murder, robbery, and taking weapons are among the provisions covered by the case.
