LAHORE, May 14: The Lahore High Court suspended on Wednesday the orders of the Punjab home secretary banning the entry of two leaders of Anjuman-i-Mazareen Punjab in the Okara sessions court premises and allowed them pre-arrest bail till May 19 in the military farm firing case.

Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jilani ordered that Anjuman-i-Mazareen chairman Khushi Muhammad and president Anwar Javed Dogar would not be arrested in this case by the police. They would be allowed to enter the Okara session court’s premises to seek relief as the restraint order of the provincial home secretary was suspended till May 19.

Earlier, Additional Advocate-General Muhammad Bilal Khan informed the court that the state had no objection to the grant of interim bail and suspension of home secretary’s orders regarding petitioners’ entrance in the Okara sessions court.

The court allowed both the leaders pre-arrest bail upon the furnishing of Rs50,000 bail bond by each of them.

The AMP leaders’ counsel argued that Khushi Muhammad and Anwar Dogar had been implicated in a case, accusing them of provoking the Anjuman’s activists to launch an armed attack on Rangers deputed at the Okara military farms on May 5. As result of which a child was injured.

According to the counsel, his clients could not go to sessions court to seek relief owing to the restraint orders issued by the home secretary.

“They would be arrested in any other case even if they are allowed to go there,” the counsel argued, and requested the court to grant them pre-arrest bail.

The court accepted the prayer and made it clear to the AMP leaders that during their stay at the sessions court, they would not enter into any other activity likely to result in law and order situation.