PESHAWAR
A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former MNA Ali Mohammad Khan, who was arrested following the May 9 violent protests. Ali Mohammad Khan was among top PTI leaders arrested after violent protests following Khan’s Khan arrest on May 9 in an alleged corruption case. He had been arrested multiple times under Section 3 of Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).
While hearing a bail plea for Ali Mohammad Khan, the PHC bench comprising Justice Iijaz Anwar and Justice Syed Mohammad Attique Shah announced the reserved verdict and ordered the release of the former PTI minister.
During the hearing, Justice Anwar remarked that whoever holds a press conference is released and the one who doesn’t, gets arrested again. “How do such serious allegations get abolished with just a press conference,” he asked. It also directed Khan to submit bonds worth Rs100,000 as surety against his bail.
Moreover, the court also accepted the pleas of some other people arrested under Section 3 of the MPO.
The former minister of the state was initially arrested from Islamabad on May 11 amid the crackdown on PTI leaders in the wake of violent protests triggered by the arrest of the party chairman. He was released and rearrested multiple times before being taken into custody by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police.
Khan secured the orders of his release from the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench on May 30, however, he was rearrested from outside the Adiala Jail under the same law by KP police.
