LHC dismisses Sana’s plea challenging arrest warrant

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday dismissed a plea filed by Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah challenging bailable arrest warrants issued by an anti-terrorism court docket (ATC) for allegedly threatening the judiciary and authorities.

The petition, whereby the inside minister had claimed that the ATC order was handed to politically malign him, was dismissed after the petitioner’s counsel withdrew the applying. 

However, it’s pertinent to notice that in his plea, Sana had maintained that “the [ATC] decide is a detailed relative of his political opponents and thus, this impugned order was handed merely to break his political place.”

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As the proceedings commenced, the minister’s lawyer Syed Farhad Ali Shah knowledgeable the bench {that a} politically motivated case was constituted in opposition to his shopper regardless of Sana not having something to do with the matter.

The counsel continued that the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case had submitted a cancellation report earlier than the ATC however the decide didn’t agree with it and had resultantly issued a bailable arrest warrant for Sana.

Advocate Shah contended that there was no materials accessible within the investigation which may set up the minister’s guilt.

Justice Najafi of the LHC questioned if the counsel anticipated the federal government to proceed “in opposition to its personal inside minister”. The lawyer maintained that the related court docket didn’t look at the file.

Justice Shahbaz Rizvi remarked that “investigating and amassing materials was the accountability of the IO” and requested if it was applicable that the petitioner went to submit his acquittal software if there was no materials in opposition to him.

Subsequently, the bench dismissed the plea after the petitioner’s counsel withdrew it.