HARIPUR: The Anti-Terrorism Court, Abbottabad, on Thursday rejected the police’s request to extend physical remand of 80 arrested Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan and ordered their shifting to the Haripur Central Prison on 14 days remand.

The police had produced the TLP workers before ATC judge Sajjad Ahmad on the completion of two days physical remand.

They requested the court to grant them the accused’s remand for two more days to investigate them regarding the charges of arson attacks, firing, damage to public and private property, and other acts of terrorism.

Havelian station house officer Haroon Khan told Dawn that all accused had been shifted to the Haripur Central Prison.

He said search was under way for the other TLP workers, who allegedly attacked the police with weapons, slingshots and sticks near the Chamba Bridge in Havelian tehsil on Sunday night.

The workers were kept in the prison’s ‘quarantine barracks’.

The arrest of TLP workers came after a clash with the police for stopping them from entering the limits of Havelian from Haripur despite a ban to attend an Eid Miladun Nabi procession.

The police claimed that their 33 personnel were injured by the TLP workers, who also damaged vehicles and property. They booked 90 TLP activists, including chief Allama Saad Rizvi and leaders Mufti Umair al-Azhari, Shafiq Amini and others.

WOMAN DIES FROM BURNS: A woman died from serious burns in a remote village of Khanpur tehsil.

Her father, Mehmood Elahi of Bhera Julian village, alleged that his daughter was killed by his son-in-law.

He complained the police that his daughter, Tehmina Bibi, 28, married Waseem Fazal of Mamriyal village three years ago but had no children, so her husband was unhappy and used to torture her.

The complainant said his daughter left her home thrice but returned.

He said Tehmina’s husband informed him on Oct 12 night about her admission to a Rawalpindi hospital insisting she had suffered burns while cooking food.

He accused his son-in-law, his father and mother of killing his daughter.

The police registered a criminal case against them and arrested them.

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2022