KARACHI: The Sindh Excessive Courtroom (SHC) on Monday prevented police from arresting Shahbaz Gill, a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief, for a second time on sedition prices pressed in opposition to him for criticising the highly effective navy.
The order was issued throughout a listening to on the plea moved by Gill to quash the instances registered in opposition to him in Karachi.
In the course of the listening to, the petitioner’s lawyer pleaded with the court docket to cease the police from arresting Gill till the ultimate determination within the case.
Gill submitted within the petition that police had registered three instances in opposition to him at a number of police stations, and requested the court docket to dismiss them.
At this, the bench stopped police from arresting Gill and adjourned the listening to.
The one-time chief of workers to former prime minister Imran Khan additionally urged the court docket for an instantaneous listening to of the plea, which was turned down by the bench.
It might be famous that on December 22, a district and classes court docket in Islamabad issued a bailable arrest warrant for Gill over his extended absence in the identical case.