ISLAMABAD – Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah’s (TLYR) leader KhadimHussain Rizvi has been declared an absconder by ATC Court after he failedto appear before the judge despite being summoned repeated times.
ATC Judge Shahrukh Arjumand issued the orders after the prosecutor statedthat all four accused have cases registered against their person but havefailed to appear before the court.
The workers of TLYR and other religious groups had on November 6 camped atthe Faizabad Interchange in Islamabad against the change in the oath ofelected representatives, paralysing the twin cities for more than two weeks.
Police and Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel had launched an operationto disperse the protesters after the Islamabad high court had ordered theclearance of the bridge that connects the federal capital with Rawalpindi.The same day, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa had advisedPrime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to “handle the Islamabad sit-inpeacefully”.
The religious party had protested against an amendment in the electionsbill, which was later reversed by the government. The religio-politicalparties ended the protest after an agreement was reached with thegovernment, which included the resignation of Law Minister Zahid Hamid.
During the proceedings, the court declared Rizvi, along with other leaders– Maulana Afzal Qadri, Maulana Inayat and Sheikh Izhar – absconders, whileissuing a warning that if the accused were not produced in court within thenext 30 days, they would be declared as proclaimed offenders.
Police have been directed to submit the challan in the next hearing, whichis scheduled for March 19.