LAHORE: Police have arrested Punjab Assembly MPA Nazir Chohan, a close aide of estranged Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Jehangir Tareen.
Adviser to the prime minister on accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar had registered a First Information report (FIR) at Race Course police. Nazir Chohan was taken into custody near Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Plaza.
Police arrested the MPA and said that his voice would be matched by the FIA for the assessment of its originality. The arrested MPA has been shifted to the FIA cybercrime cell.
The case against Chohan was registered under sections 506 (punishment for intimidation), 189 (threatening public servant), 298 (hurting religious sentiments) and 153 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
Shehzad Akbar said the lawmaker made false allegations about his faith in a TV show. “The offence had been committed to cause injury to the reputation, body, property and mind of the applicant and cause hatred in public at large towards the applicant,” the FIR read. It said Chohan committed “the offence with the nefarious design to wound the religious feelings of the applicant.”
Meanwhile, a meeting of the lawmakers, who have expressed solidarity with Tareen, has been called in to discuss the arrest of Nazir Chohan. The meeting will be held in Lahore to discuss the future course of strategy. Chohan was elected on the PTI ticket from the PP-167 constituency.
