The Anti Terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday, handed over the human rights activist Imaan Mazari and her husband to the police for a three days physical remand as they had professed to interfere in the government operations.
Mazari and her husband were arrested on Monday in the case registered at Apara police station, the couple was presented before the ATC judge Abul Hasnat Zulqurnain.
The allegations against them were misbehaving, breaching security and trying to remove barriers at a check post, which had been installed for the security of the cricket team of Pakistan and England.
The First Information Report (FIR), against them includes section 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), section 148 (rioting, armed with a deadly weapon), section 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of the offence committed in prosecution of common object) and section 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) along with Section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
Another charge was filed on the complaint of sub inspector Tanveer Ather including PPC’s Sections 506(ii) (punishment for criminal intimidation) and 120B (punishment for criminal conspiracy).
The FIR stated that there was a route for the security of the England cricket team, as they were a state guest and due to terror attacks, when Imaan Maazari tried to remove the barriers making the people present there furious.
She wanted the barriers to be removed and started shouting with her husband lawyer Abdul Hadi arriving there and started threatening the police, he also slapped and abused a police man mentioned in the FIR.
The prosecutor Raja Naveed requested the court to grant a 30 day remand of the suspects during the hearing today.
The officials said that the police tried to stop them for breaching the security by their illegal actions. The prosecutor further said that two people accompanying them should also be arrested. The video should also be sent for forensic. Further the court approved that the couple should be handed over to the police for a three day remand.
Imaan’s mother and former minister Shireen Mazari while commenting on the arrest, said it was state fascism and it was also condemned by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).
