HYDERABAD, May 11: The PPP-backed Awam Dost Panel nazim of Moosa Khatyan union council, Syed Shafqat Shah, was released from the central jail on Friday after a court granted him bail in a case pertaining to road blockade and damaging portraits of the Sindh chief minister.

On the last hearing of the case, the court of second additional district judge, Hyderabad, had remanded the nazim and co-accused Ghulam Mustafa Kaleri in judicial custody for seven days. On Friday, it granted them bail in a sum of Rs50,000 each.

The nazim and Mr Kaleri have been charged with blocking Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas road with People’s Party Parliamentarians activists and damaging larger-than-life size portraits of Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim during a protest.

The case was registered by the Tandojam police under sections 124-A, 153, 149 and 506(2) of the Pakistan Penal Code. Police have not yet submitted charge-sheet.

DEMOSTRATION: Meanwhile, activists of the Sindh People's Youth Organisation, youth wing of the PPP, staged a protest demonstration outside the Hyderabad Press Club.

Speaking on the occasion, SPYO president Aijaz Dhamrah and general secretary Akram Iqbal said that no amount of excesses could break the spirit of the party workers.

They said that the Sindh chief minister should refrain from committing atrocities against PPP workers and ‘keep in mind that he might be in trouble when out of power.’