Fix-It campaigner Alamgir Khan released on bail

Karachi

Social activist Alamgir Khan of the Fix-It campaign fame – launched in January this year to get the chief minister’s attention towards uncovered manholes in the metropolis – was released on bail along with his driver on Friday, following their arrest a day earlier.

Khan and his driver were presented before the court of the Judicial Magistrate (South), where their bail plea was accepted against surety bonds of Rs 5,000 each.

Talking to media outside the courtroom, he said such minor cases would not deter him from his mission.

Earlier on Thursday, he was arrested by police officials after he attempted to set up a symbolic garbage bin outside the CM House.

An FIR was registered against him in the Civil Lines police station for disrupting traffic and littering outside the CM House.

He was on board a tractor and was moving towards the PIDC traffic intersection towards the red zone when police personnel took him and his driver into custody.

“I have brought this dustbin with me to put garbage in it and install it outside the CM’s house so that he could also smell and witness the filth the rest of the city’s citizens are surrounded in,” Khan had said moments before he was whisked away by the law enforcers.

A video posted on the campaigner’s Facebook page showed Khan and his driver riding a tractor along with a garbage filled trolley on Sharea Faisal, heading towards the CM House, to install what he said was a symbolic garbage bin.

Khan’s driver was detained by policemen and also beaten with sticks.

The campaigner on approaching the police officials to get the driver released was also taken into custody; both of them were taken to a nearby police station.