NAWABSHAH, May 19: The District and Sessions Judge Nawabshah on Saturday granted interim pre-arrest bail to eight lawyers charged with firing on police and planning terrorist activities in Karachi.

The District Judge, Ghulam Qadir Leghari, granted bail to the President of the District Bar Association (DBA), Ali Mohammad Dahiri, Secretary Ziaul Hassan Lanjar, Joint Secretary Ameer Lai Mahessar, Ayaz Ali Gopang, Shahbaz Dahiri, Ghulam Shabbir Zardari, Khan Mohammad Zardari and Ayaz Ali Arain on the sum of Rs 50,000 each for furnishing a bond before the court.

The lawyers are to appear in court on June 4, and the Station House Officer (SHO) of the A-section police has been directed to submit police papers in the court on the same date.

The lawyers’ names were entered in the roznamcha of the A-section police station on the grounds that they, with 30 to 40 other lawyers and political party activists, were moving towards Karachi to undertake terrorist activities on May 12 and when they were stopped at Qazi Ahmed Naka, they started firing on police personnel and escaped.

INJURED: Three brothers were seriously injured when their motorcycle slipped at the Qazi Ahmed link road on Saturday. Students of Bahria Foundation College, Rizwan, Sajjad and Hashim were taken to NMC Hospital for treatment.