28 TLP workers remanded in judicial custody in rioting case
Karachi
April 18, 2021
The anti-terrorism courts’ administrative judge on Saturday remanded more than two dozen workers of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan in jail custody for two days for their alleged involvement in recent rioting and road blockage in Karachi.
Twenty-eight workers were produced by the Kharadar police in the court on the expiry of their physical remand. The investigation officer submitted before the judge that the suspects were arrested while they were blocking the main roads along the Merewether Tower on April 13.
He added that the suspects were interrogated during their physical remand and the investigation did not require their custody any longer. The judge sent the suspects to jail in judicial custody till May 5 and sought a charge sheet at the next hearing.