Court acquits Lal Masjid cleric

Author: Online

ISLAMABAD: The local court has announced the reserved verdict and acquitted the Imam of Lal Masjid, Maulana Abdul Aziz in the last case on Monday.

Jibran Nasir, the activist of the civil society had filed a suit against Maulana Abdul Aziz on December 19, 2014 and adopted that the civil society was staging a protest demonstration against the carnage of Army Public School Peshawar in front of Lal Masjid.

In the meanwhile, Maulana Abdul Aziz came out and threatened the participants of dire consequences and prayed the court to register a case against him under section 506-B.

The Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate Muhammad Naseeruddin in his brief verdict said that the plaintiff could not produce evidence to the police against the defendant during the investigation adding that allegations levelled against Maulana Abdul Aziz were baseless.

It is worth-mentioning here that no case is pending against Maulana Abdul Aziz in the courts and he has been acquitted in all cases.

Judicial remand: The local court of Islamabad has handed over a human trafficker including 10 other accused to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on 14 days judicial remand.

According to details, the FIA on Monday produced the prime accused Sajjad Bhatti and told the court that he along with his close ally Mirza Sikandar were allegedly involve in human trafficking and were transporting people to Europe through Sudan, Libya and Italy and prayed the court to grant the judicial remand of the accused. The Senior Civil Judge Abdul Ghafoor Kakar has accepted the plea of the FIA.

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