LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: A division bench headed by Justice Alia Neelam of the Lahore High Court conditionally dismissed registrar’s objections on PTI activist Khadija Shah’s bail plea.
The court ordered the removal of the objectionable documents from the bail application and dismissed the objection.
The petitioner pleaded that police unduly implicated her in the May 9 riots. Khadija Shah said that Gulberg police illegally involved her in the case against the facts.
“The Anti-Terrorism Court dismissed the bail by ignoring the facts,” Khadija Shah pleaded via her lawyer in the court on Monday.
LHC removes registrar’s objection from PTI activist Khadija Shah’s bail plea.
Lahore police arrested Khadija Shah on May 24, when she courted arrest.
Since then, she had been filing petitions in the court to get bail in May 9 violence cases against her.
Lahore police registered a case against Khadijah Shah at the Sarwar Road police station. In her bail application, the designer asserts that she is currently in jail on judicial remand and argues that no further investigation is necessary. She has requested the court to grant her post-arrest bail.
Earlier, the Lahore High Court dismissed petitions that sought to declare the detention of Khadijah Shah and others involved in the May 9 violence cases as unlawful.
The two-member bench, headed by Justice Najafi, heard the case and issued a written verdict.
The verdict stated that the detention of the petitioners cannot be considered illegal as the investigators are following the legal process.
The court emphasized that proper legal procedures cannot be circumvented, and the case against the petitioners has been duly registered, with ongoing investigations.
Khadija Shah _ a prime suspect in the May 9 attack
Earlier, Khadija Shah, the prime suspect in the attack on the Corps Commander’s Lahore residence on May 9, filed a plea in the Lahore High Court seeking post-arrest bail.
Sumaira Khosa filed the bail plea on behalf of Khadija Shah. Ms. Shah courted arrest a week after hiding here and there in Lahore to avoid arrest in the Jinnah House and the Askari Tower attacks cases.
Her family also used their influence to get a pardon for Khadija Shah, but the response they got from the power corridors was “Absolutely Not.”
Earlier, the anti-terrorism court in Lahore rejected her bail. Therefore, Khadija Shah urged the Lahore High Court to grant her post-arrest bail.
Khadija Shah is a prominent fashion designer and a US citizen. Lahore police arrested her for her alleged involvement in the arson of the Lahore Corp Commander House (Jinnah House) on May 9.
She is the daughter of former finance minister Dr. Salman Shah and granddaughter of ex-army chief General Asif Nawaz Janjua.
