The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) Sargodha has approved three-day physical remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Ali Amin Gandapur.The Bhakkar police have registered three cases against Ali Amin Gandapur, including one that includes anti-terrorism provisions. The PTI leader was produced before the Anti-Terrorism Court in Sargodha where the Saddar Police sought physical remand of PTI leader in a third case registered against in Bhakar. The ATC judge granted the police’s request and handed over Ali Amin Gandapur to Bhakkar police on a three-day physical remand. Gandapur, a former federal minister, was arrested from outside the Peshawar High Court’s D.I. Khan bench last week.

On April 8, a case was registered against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Ali Amin Gandapur at Islamabad’s Golra police station under section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA). The first information report (FIR) also invoked sections 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging or attempting to wage war or abetting waging of war against Pakistan), 121A (conspiracy to commit offences punishable by Section 121), 122 (collecting arms, etc., with intention of waging war against Pakistan), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code and section 16 of Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) ordinance.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan-INP