GUJRANWALA, Sept 26: Activists of Islami Jamiat Talaba and Jamaat-i-Islami district and city organizations protested against the National Highway and Motorway Police for manhandling students and involving them in a criminal case under the terrorism act.

Talking to newsmen here on Friday, IJT divisional nazim Hafiz Azher, JI district president Prof Obaidur Rehman and city president Navidul Hassan said that students of Kamoki, Sadhoki, Eminabad and other remote areas were being harassed by the motorway police on the pretext of overloading in vehicles.

They said the motorway police manhandled and arrested some 18 students while boarding a wagon on the GT Road in Eminabad. Later, they were booked by the Eminabad police under the terrorism act.

The IJT and JI leaders demanded that the motorway police should be taken to task and the arrested students be released otherwise they would come on road.

The NH&MP Kharian to Lahore sector incharge, SSP Shariq Jamal, said that students attacked the motorway police office in Eminabad, damaged two vehicles and injured four senior police officers a day earlier during a clash.

He said that lawlessness would not be tolerated at any cost as these elements were not students but extortionists who received forced tax from vehicle owners.

Meanwhile, Muslim Students Federation district president Rana Shabbir Ahmad Khan supported the motorway policeversion.