LHC is annoyed by PTI’s request for the participants in “Jail Bharo” to be recovered.
The court rejects PTI’s request for immediate notice and demands a response from the relevant authorities by February 27.
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday voiced concerns regarding requests for the release of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leaders and members who are now detained voluntarily.
While he presided over the proceedings, Justice Shehram Sarwar said, “First you people decided to willingly provide arrests, boarded prison vans with your own consent, and now you have come to increase the court’s load seeking reparation.”
It should be mentioned that some PTI leaders and members called for the arrests as part of the party’s “Jail Bharo” campaign, which aims to draw attention to the government’s policies and put pressure on it to call elections.
The PTI’s detained leadership, including “Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Umar Sarfraz Cheema, Azam Swati, Waleed Iqbal, Murad Rass and several others before the court after recovering them from illegal detention of the respondents,” have been requested in petitions by senator Ijaz Ch., Syeda Nuria Humaira Rafique, wife of Waleed Iqbal, and others.
Judge Shehram questioned how and when the leaders and employees were taken into prison as the hearing got underway. The attorneys responded by stating that more than 100 PTI leaders and employees had been held against their will.
According to them, people who were imprisoned were taken into custody as part of a movement that offered volunteer arrests in an effort to maintain the Constitution’s supremacy.
