SC shames police for implicating citizens in fabricated cases

LAHORE
Supreme Court Tuesday granted bail to a man arrested for distributing hate material and raising funds for banned outfits.
A two-judge bench headed by Justice Ijaz Ahmad Ch observed that eleven months passed to the arrest of the petitioner and the police failed to even investigate basic questions of the case. The police did not know the persons to whom the petitioner allegedly distributed hate material and the publisher of the material. The bench said the police officials should be ashamed of implicating citizens in fabricated cases.
Sabzazar police had registered a case under Protection of Pakistan Act (POPA) against Moazzam Rasheed, accusing him of distributing hate material against army.
A deputy prosecutor told the court that cases registered under POPA could not be assailed at any judicial forum. However, the bench allowed the petition and released the petition on bail.
Meanwhile, the Lahore High Court on Tuesday dismissed bail petitions of five members of a banned organisation.
Ghalib Marker police had arrested Shahzad Ahmad, Nafees and other two on charges of spreading hatred against the army.