PHC stops police from arresting Omar Ayub

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday granted transit bail to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan and stopped the police from arresting him.

A single bench of Justice Kamran Hayat Miankhel heard the bail plea. Moazzam Butt and Ali Zaman appeared for the PTI leader. The counsels informed the court their client was the PTI secretary general and different cases had been instituted against him after the May 9 violence. 

They said the number of cases registered against Omar Ayub in various parts of the country stood at 21. The counsels said their client wanted a transit bail to appear in the relevant courts in these cases but feared arrest. The court, after granting him the transit bail, directed Omar Ayub to appear in the relevant courts and adjourned the hearing till January 15, next year. The court also adjourned till Wednesday the petitions filed against the cases registered against the PTI leader Sher Afzal Marwat. These were clubbed with similar cases. The bench stopped the police from arresting a PTI leader from Dera Ismail Khan in the first information reports registered against him and sought a reply from the KP government.