ISLAMABAD: A case has been registered against Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid for allegedly opening fire on police during PTI’s ‘Azadi March’.
The case was registered at the Saddar Hassan Abdal police station by the police. Police said that the GB chief minister’s chief security officer and 50 cops have also been nominated as suspects in the case.
As per the FIR, CM Khurshid and his security team shouted slogans against the government and administration and kept firing on police personnel.
The sections of the PPC imposed include Section 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), Section 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) .Section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant)
He has also been charged with Section 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), Section 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), Section 324 (attempt to commit qatl-i-amd), and Section 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees).
PTI leaders booked
A day earlier, police registered a case against 150 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders and workerd for riots and inciting people to violence in their long march.
PTI chairman Imran Khan, Asad Umar other leaders were booked for riots. Police also presented a list of 39 arrested PTI workers.
The Islamabad Police also registered cases against PTI leaders Asad Umar, Imran Ismail, Raja Khurram Nawaz, Ali Amin Gandapur, and Ali Nawaz Awan. The police registered two separate cases at the Kohsar Police Station for “rioting and arson”.
