Three supporters of PTI UK booked on terror charges
The federal capital police registered a first information report – including terrorism charges – against three supporters of PTI’s UK chapter and a YouTuber on Thursday for allegedly intimidating the judicial officers.
“They also obstructed the learned judge in discharge of his duties and assaulted him for restraining from his duties,” said the complaint filed by Nasir Iqbal with the Ramna Police Station.
The copy of FIR was registered by an Islamabad based journalist Aamir Ilyas Rana on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
The four suspects who were named in the FIR were Shayan Ali, Sarah Mir Gilgati, Imran Khalil, and Adil Farooq Raja.
The complaint invoked sections 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
It also included section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism), 11W (printing, publishing, or disseminating any material to incite hatred or giving projection to anyperson convicted for a terrorist act or any proscribed organization or an organization placed underobservation or anyone concerned in terrorism), and 21 (i) which deals with the protection of judges of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), 1997.
The complainant cites the video, having a PTI supporter, against Additional District and Sessions Judge Humayun Dilawar who sentenced PTI chief Imran Khan to three years in prison in a case pertaining to the selling of gifts.
Dilawar’s name was among the top trends on X after the decision, which also led to Khan’s disqualification. His name surfaced on social media after reports that he was due to visit the UK for training on human rights.
Dilawar flew to England to participate in training probably on the same day he announced the decision. The University of Hull which conducted the training had to clarify that it had no role in the selection of judges from Pakistan after a strong reaction from many people on social media.
