*RAWALPINDI: Police on Monday registered three FIRs against Captain (retd)Safdar and several other PML-N leaders at different police stations of thecity for taking out a rally to obstruct his arrest by putting up a humanshield of party workers. *
Safdar, who had went into hiding after the pronouncement of the Avenfieldcase verdict, reached Rawalpindi and led a rally of supporters before hisarrest at the hands of a NAB team.
The cases have been registered at Waris Khan, City and New Town policestations. Safdar, Chaudhry Tanveer, Daniyal Chaudhry, and Raja Hanif areamong those PML-N leaders named in the FIRs.
The FIR registered at Waris Khan police station nominated 14 PML-Nleaders. The former premier’s son-in-law, a convict who was handed out oneyear’s jail term by an accountability court on Friday, has been accused ofleading a rally and blocking road without permission.
It alleged that the participants of the rally violated the ECP’s code ofconduct for general elections and relevant sections of the amplifiers act.
The case has been registered under sections 149, 147, 188, 341, and 3/7 ofthe Amplifier Act.
In another FIR registered at City police station, more than 50 PML-Nleaders and supporters have been named under similar sections of relevantlaws.
PML-N leader Shakeel Awan along with others took out a rally inRawalpindi’s Raja Bazaar despite a ban on rallies under section 144 imposedby the Punjab government.
New Town police nominated more than 100 PML-N leaders and workers who werepart of the rally.