PESHAWAR: Legal professionals on Tuesday noticed a strike throughout the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province towards the registration of a felony case towards a member of the provincial bar council and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief, Ali Zaman, at an area police station.
The bar council had given the decision for strike to attorneys a day earlier and demanded the withdrawal of the FIR registered towards Mr Zaman at Peshawar’s Nasirbagh police station.
Legal professionals principally stayed away from proceedings earlier than totally different courts, together with the Peshawar Excessive Court docket, its benches in Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, Mingora, and Abbottabad, and subordinate courts.
Mr Zaman, who was an impartial candidate backed by the PTI, had contested the PK-73 Peshawar constituency within the February 8 basic elections. Nonetheless, his rival candidate of PTI-Parliamentarians, Arbab Mohammad Waseem Khan, was declared elected to the stated seat by the involved returning officer and the Election Fee of Pakistan.
Calls for case withdrawal
Mr Zaman, who can also be the previous president of the Peshawar Bar Affiliation, had alleged {that a} feminine assistant commissioner, who was
the returning officer of the stated constituency, had manipulated election outcomes to declare his rival candidate an MPA.
Addressing a public assembly right here just a few days in the past, Mr Zaman used ‘harsh’ language towards the feminine officer and levelled a number of allegations towards her. The video went viral on social media.
An FIR was reportedly registered towards Mr Zaman on a criticism filed by the stated officer’s husband, by which he had been accused of a number of offences together with hurling threats and utilizing derogatory language.
Bar council vice-chairman Sadiq Ali Mohmand and govt committee chairman Syed Taimoor Ali Shah claimed that the FIR was registered in an unlawful method and didn’t conform to the regulation.
They stated registration of a felony case towards Mr Zaman was a violation of freedom of expression, which was assured by the Structure.
The council members stated they stood by Mr Zaman and wouldn’t enable any unconstitutional and unlawful acts by the native police and administration towards him.
In the meantime, the PHC Bar Affiliation condemned the registration of the
FIR towards Mr Zaman and demanded that high-ranking law enforcement officials conduct an neutral inquiry into the matter.
A gathering of the affiliation chaired by its president, Fida Gul, declared that the case was baseless and was registered on the idea of mala fide.
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