TLP chief Saad Hussain Rizvi. Photo courtesy Facebook/File
LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Monday disposed of as withdrawn a petition challenging the detention of Hafiz Saad Rizvi, chief of proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
As a two-judge bench headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah took up the petition at the Lahore registry, Rizvi’s counsel Burhan Moazzam Malik said a review board had set aside the previous detention of Rizvi. However, he said, the government on July 10 issued a fresh notification extending the detention of the TLP chief for further 90 days.
Justice Shah observed that the review board had already set aside the detention assailed in the instant petition.
Review board orders release of TLP chief
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July 3, 2021
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday dismissed a government plea to extend the detention of Saad Rizvi, head of the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
The three-member review board comprised Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan, Justice Aalia Neelum and Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan.
Rizvi was produced before the board on expiry of his 90-day detention period. Government officials assisted the board during in-camera proceedings while requesting an extension. The board also dismissed an application by the Punjab Home Department to extend the detention of TLP activists Usman and Wazir Ali.
A large police contingent was present at the entry and exit gates of the LHC as Rizvi was being presented before the court. Entry to court premises was also barred. Hundreds of TLP workers showered their leader with rose petals as soon as he disembarked from the police van. They also raised slogans defending the party.
Review board rejects govt’s plea to extend Saad Rizvi’s detention
July 3, 2021
LAHORE: A provincial review board on Friday turned down a request of the Punjab home department to extend the detention of Saad Rizvi, leader of proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
Reports said the police produced Rizvi before a three-member board comprising honourable judges of the Lahore High Court amid strict security arrangements. During an in-camera proceeding, an official of the home department presented records of the cases against Rizvi and requested the board to extend his detention for another 30 days. Advocate Burhan Moazzam Malik represented Rizvi and opposed the government’s request.
Plea to extend Rizvi’s detention turned down
Authorities say TLP will hold processions if the party chief freed
Saad Hussain Rizvi. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
A provincial review board turned down the Punjab government’s reference seeking further extension in detention of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) Chief Saad Hussain Rizvi.
The review board was headed by Lahore High Court (LHC)’s Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan. LHC Justice Aalia Neelum and Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan were also its members.
The government took the plea that ‘the law and order situation may be created if Rizvi is released’. The government claimed that TLP may hold processions if Rizvi is freed. TLP’s objective will be to launch a comprehensive move to get restored its status through processions and they may force the government to lift the word ‘banned organization’ from TLP through its processions, they pleaded.
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