HYDERABAD: Police picked up an activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London, who was among the nine to 10 suspects accused of raising anti-state slogans, in Latifabad late on Sunday night and booked him in an FIR.

The FIR was registered under sections 123/A, 124/A and 34 PPC on a complaint filed by sub-inspector at A-Section police station on Jan 5.

Police officials said that suspects Nisar Panhwar, Abdul Rasheed Bhayya (former deputy mayor HMC), Raheel, Abdul Majeed Khan, MQM-L activist Shakeel Zai, and four to five others had raised slogans in favour of Altaf Hussain and against Pakistan at a wedding in Latifabad unit 7.

They said that footage of close circuit television cameras proved that the suspects did raise the anti-state slogans.

Police produced Zai, who was a member of Hyderabad District Bar Association (HDBA), in the court of civil judge to obtain his remand.

The HDBA leaders had taken up the issue with the sessions judge to seek his bail in the case.

Another suspect in the case, Abdul Majeed was also produced in the court.

Published in Dawn, January 10th, 2023