PTI’s appeal against the state counsel’s appointment in the protest case from November 26 was allowed.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) appeal against the state counsel’s appointment in the protest case from November 26 has been allowed by the Islamabad District and Sessions Court.
Because PTI’s defense attorneys were not present, the trial court appointed state counsel in the matter, which was filed under FIR No. 976 at the Ramna Police Station. But Additional District and Sessions Judge Aamir Zia reversed that ruling, stating that the state counsel appointed by the trial court was invalid.
The appeal was filed by PTI objecting to the move by Judicial Magistrate Ahmed Shehzad Gondal, who had assigned a state counsel for the accused in their lawyers’ absence.
Separately, the Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) gave copies of the charge sheet to social media activist Ahmed Janjua and PTI leader Raoof Hasan in a case involving the purported recovery of explosive ingredients.
The hearing was presided over by ATC Judge Abual-Hasnat Muhammad Zulqarnain, who postponed the case to July 28 in anticipation of the filing of official charges. The case against the PTI leaders was registered at the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) police station.
