LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday granted interim protective bail to PTI vice president Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Senator Azam Swati in criminal cases registered against them by the Islamabad police.

Mr Qureshi sought bail in two cases, while Swati in one FIR on charges of attacking police teams and damaging public property. The section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 was violatedin these cases.

Bothleaders appearedbeforea two-judge bench along with their lawyers.

The lawyers told the bench that the petitioners wanted to join the investigation but the police were bent upon arresting them.

The bench headed, by Justice SyedShahbazAliRizvi,granted the protective bail to both petitioners till March 27 with a direction to them to appear before the court of relevant jurisdiction for pre-arrest bail before the next hearing.

An anti-terrorism court granted interim pre-arrest bail to PTI leader Jamshed Iqbal Cheema and his wife Musarrat Iqbal Cheema in a case of attacking police parties with petrol bombs and stones outside the Zaman Park residence of former prime minister Imran Khan.

Judge Ijaz Ahmad Buttar restrained the police from arresting the petitioners till April 4 and summoned a record of the case against them.

The judge also directed the petitioners to join the police investigation.

REMAND: An anti-terrorism court on Monday sent 102 workers of the PTI to jail on judicial remand for their identification parade in a case of attacking, hurling stones and petrol bombs on the police personnel and vehicles outside the Zaman Park.

The Racecourse police produced the arrested workers before the court and sought permission to shift them to jail for their identification parade.

Lawyers appearing on behalf of the workers opposed the police request and asked the court to discharge their clients in the case.

The court allowed the police request and directed it to produce the arrested workers again on April 3.

YASMIN RASHID: A sessions court on Monday disposed of a petition of PTI-Punjab President Dr Yasmin Rashid against the alleged harassment by the police officials despite being on pre-arrest bail in cases registered against her.

A law officer submitted a report on behalf of Civil Lines police denying the charges of the petitioner. The report said cases were pending before the courts against the petitioner and there was no possibility of any kind of harassment by the police.

The court disposed of the petition in light of the police report.

Ms Rashid stated that she was going to her clinic in Shadman when police vehicles stopped her car and tried to arrest her despite knowing her bail.

The PTI leader said she made hue and cry upon which people gathered and she called her lawyers who came to the spot and rescued her from illegal and unlawful harassment by the police.

She asked the court to restrain the police from harassing, blackmailing, threatening and humiliating her.