ISLAMABAD: Workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) taken into custody during the party’s ‘November 2 lockdown’ last year were acquitted of all charges on Friday. Golra Police had registered an FIR against several PTI workers, for carrying out ‘unlawful’ activity when the party initiated its protest ‘lockdown’ of the capital. The suspects, already out on bail, had sought their acquittal under Section 249-A of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The plea stated that no evidence was presented against them, adding that they were taken into custody while travelling in a vehicle. The magistrate accepted the petition and ordered acquittal of all the accused in the case seeing ‘no chances of their conviction’. The magistrate also ordered for their bail bonds to be released and sureties discharged. Published in Daily Times, July 22nd , 2017.