LAHORE: A Lahore session court on Wednesday ordered to register a case against Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and the senior police officers for violence against lawyers and political workers during PTI’s long march last month.
Additional Sessions Judge Malik Mudassir Umer Bodlah announced the verdict on the petition filed by PTI’s lawyers.
Advocate Haider Majeed had filed an application in the Lahore sessions court, seeking the registration of cases against the interior minister and Punjab police officials under Section-166(1), 352, and 427 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
The learned judge after completing the hearing on the application announced the registration of criminal cases against Rana Sanaullah, CCPO Lahore, and DIG Operations under Section-166, 352, and 427.
The court ordered the concerned station house officer (SHO) to register a case and submit the report.
Sanaullah, on Tuesday, justified the police actions against the marchers and said that PTI workers were armed.
The interior minister said the government was in possession of audiotapes that prove PTI Chief Imran Khan told his party supporters to come armed for the long march.
The government has a “telephonic conversation” in which Imran Khan and several other PTI leaders could be heard instigating people before the protest, he said.
