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LAHORE: PTI lawyer Advocate Haider Majeed, has been handed over to the military for trial over his alleged involvement in May 9 vandalism at Lahore’s Jinnah House, the Lahore High Court (LHC) was told on Monday.
This move occurs just days after Barrister Hassaan Niazi, the nephew of Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, was turned over to the military for prosecution on the same accusations.
Haider’s father Muhammad Majeed submitted a petition to the LHC on August 19 asking for his son to be returned. In the petition, he said Haider and Niazi were both arrested late on August 13 and that they were both brought into jail together.
According to the PTI, Haider is the convener of the Insaf Students Federation’s Punjab wing.
In the petition filed on August 19, Muhammad had named Punjab Inspector General Dr Usman Anwar, Lahore Capital City Police Officer Bilal Siddique Kamyana, the Sarwar Road station house officer (SHO), and the provincial and federal governments as the respondents in the case.
The plea had urged the court to direct the respondents to “immediately produce” his son and release him accordingly.
Today, the LHC took up the plea filed by Haider’s father, during which Lahore police submitted a report, signed on August 17, informing the court that the suspect had been handed over to the military.
The report said both Niazi and Haider were arrested from Abbottabad’s Mirpur police station by Sarwar Road police in a terror case.
