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| Lahore court sends 92 TLP workers on two-week judicial remand |
| 2019-02-06 |
[DAWN] A court in Lahore on Tuesday ordered 92 workers of the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) to be sent to jail on judicial remand. They had been tossed in the slammerYou have the right to remain silent... a day earlier for trying to block an armoured vehicle carrying the party chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi following his appearance before an anti-terrorism court (ATC). Rizvi had been brought a day earlier to the ATC for the hearing of a case registered against him and five other party leaders ‐ who were also produced before the court ‐ for damaging public property during violent protests against a Supreme Court verdict that acquitted Aasia Bibi in a blasphemy case last year. Judicial Magistrate Ahmed Nadeem Niazi heard the case regarding the 92 workers at Cantt Kachhery (Lahore Cantonment Court of Law) as the ATC was shut due to the public holiday on account of Kashmire Day. |
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