LAHORE: Police claimed to have arrested on Sunday the main suspect involved in attacking activists of civil society at a vigil held to mark the death anniversary of slain Punjab governor Salman Taseer in January this year.

Mumtaz Sindhi was wanted by police which did not reveal from where the suspect was arrested but said he belonged to the Sunni Tehrik.

Police had earlier arrested seven suspects Adeel, Furqan, Iftikhar, Kashif, Deen Muhammad, Sajid and Wazir Ali and booked them under Section 7 of the ATC and sections 365, 427, 183, 148 and 149 of the PPC in the same case.

An anti-terrorism court had rejected the bail of these suspects. The Lahore High Court later granted bail to these suspects with a direction to the ATC to decide the case within three months. The case is still under trial in the ATC.

Complainant Abdullah Malik claimed that Mumtaz Sindhi was allegedly leading a group which had attacked and injured a journalist and a rights activist besides destroying a portrait of the slain governor during a vigil.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2015

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