An Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday granted bails to PTI former MNA, Amjad Khan Niazi, and 63 other party workers in a case pertaining to violence outside the Federal Judicial Complex on March 18.
ATC judge Raja Jawad Abbasi accepted the PTI leaders’ request and instructed them to submit surety bonds worth Rs50,000.
On Saturday, as the former prime minister came at the FJC to attend a hearing in the Toshakhana case, hours-long skirmishes were reported between PTI workers and the capital police.
Law enforcement personnel and PTI supporters engaged in a violent altercation, with both sides using tear gas to push the other back. Together with petrol bombs to burn the police’s vehicles on fire, the PTI used rocks to attack the latter.
According to the Islamabad police, dozens of officials were injured in the clashes a large number of vehicles were torched.
Subsequently, Imran and a number of PTI leaders — including Amjad — were booked in terrorism cases.
Moreover, the Islamabad police said on Wednesday that it has arrested more than 300 PTI supporters, accusing them of “incitement, arson, vandalism [and] attacks on police”.
