LAHORE: A sessions court of Lahore reserved its verdict on Saturday on apetition seeking registration of a sedition case against Khadim HussainRizvi, the central leader of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
Additional Sessions Judge Roy Muhammad Kharal heard a plea filed byAbdullah Malik seeking a court order for registration of case undersedition charges against Khadim Hussain Rizvi.
Civil Lines police station Lahore submitted its record in the court. Thecourt was informed that a case was already filed against Rizvi on October31 under the charges of rioting and damaging public property.
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The petitioner informed the court that the TLP leader Rizvi, after theSupreme Court’s decision in Aasia case, instigated general public with hisprovocating speeches against the state institutions. The roads were blockedin protests and protesters caused billions of rupees loss to properties.This act of Tehreek-e-Labbaik was equal to a seditious act, the petitionsaid.
