KARACHI: A sessions court on Tuesday granted interim pre-arrest bail to two lawmakers belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in a case pertaining to allegedly threatening their own party’s dissident MNA Ramesh Kumar.

Police had booked MPAs Saeed Afridi and Shah Nawaz Jadoon along with three workers — Noman Azam, Muhammad Fayyaz and Nasir Khan — for allegedly threatening their defector lawmaker during a protest outside his residence on March 21.

The additional district and sessions judge (South) granted the interim bail against a surety of Rs50,000 each. Directing the lawmakers to cooperate with the police during the investigation, the judge fixed the matter for confirmation of their interim bail or otherwise for March 28.

Meanwhile, a judicial ma­g­is­trate (South) reman­ded in judicial custody the three held PTI workers.

The investigating officer (IO) submitted that the suspects had allegedly chanted slogans, hurled threats to MNA Kumar and also damaged public property during a protest outside his residence.

Published in Dawn, March 23rd, 2022