IHC indicts Islamabad DC, three others for contempt over PTI leaders’ detention

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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday indicted capital Deputy Commissioner (DC) Irfan Nawaz Memon and three others for contempt in a case about the prolonged detention of PTI leaders Shehryar Afridi and Shandana Gulzar under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) ordinance.

Justice Babar Sattar presided over the hearing, during which the court also indicted Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) operations Jamil Zafar, Superintendent (SP) Farooq Buttar and Station House Officer (SHO) Nasir Manzoor.

The development comes a day after the IHC stripped Islamabad’s district magistrate of his powers to detain suspects under the MPO while hearing the identical petitions.

The police had held the PTI leaders in connection with the May 9 violence, with Afridi first arrested on May 16 and Gulzar taken into custody on August 9.

On August 16, the IHC had allowed Afridi and Gulzar to be released and decided to indict the DC and SSP for contempt of court after deeming their responses to the court “unsatisfactory”.

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