The arrest of Shireen Mazari by ACE Punjab has been ruled unlawful.

The Islamabad High Court’s Justice Mohsin Akhtar pronounced the reserved ruling and revoked the commission’s findings that had ordered her arrest, according to the facts.

The court ordered an investigation into the case by the Punjab Home Department and the Secretary of the Establishment Division.

On May 21, 2022, the Anti-Corruption Punjab detained former PTI leader Shireen Mazari.

Shireen Mazari was connected to fourteen separate cases pertaining to the vandalism on May 9, which is important to note here.

The former federal minister announced his complete resignation from PTI and politics shortly after the May 9 riots of the previous year.

Declaring she had always been against violence, Shireen Mazari denounced the May 9 riots on May 23, 2023.

Her 12-day incarceration during the May 9 riots, in which demonstrators nationwide staged protests after former Prime Minister Imran Khan was taken into custody from the Islamabad court premises, was cited by her as the cause for her decision to resign from politics.

Her name has been removed from the ECL under a ruling issued by the IHC last year. Mazari was never labeled absconder, according to the court’s decision from December 2.

Removing her name on the Exclusion List (ECL), which places restrictions on people’s travel, was mandated by the IHC to the Director General of Immigration and Passports.