Islamabad: (Staff Reporter) Islamabad police arrested PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s nephew and focal person Hassan Khan Niazi from outside the Judicial Complex for allegedly attacking law enforcement personnel and causing chaos in the capital city on March 18.
According to the source, Hassan Niazi was arrested from G-11 near Judicial Complex. Hassan was present with other PTI workers when Imran Khan appeared before court at judicial complex on Saturday. Hours-long clashes were reported between PTI workers and the capital police when Imran Khan arrived at the Federal Judicial Complex to attend a hearing in the Toshakhana case.
As per details during the violent confrontation, a contingent of law enforcers and PTI supporters used anti-riot gear against each other. Teargas was used to push the PTI supporters back. Several vehicles were torched by PTI supporters.
According to FIR, windowpanes were smashed, and main gate of Judicial Complex was broken. It said that police arrested the suspects involved in damaging different structures of Judicial Complex and stones were pelted on law enforcers. Police said 2 cars and 7 motorcycles were torched, besides official vehicles of SHO Golra Sharif.
Earlier, the Islamabad police arrested nearly 200 PTI supporters for allegedly attacking law enforcement personnel and causing chaos in Islamabad. In a series of tweets on Monday, the Islamabad police said that 198 PTI protesters involved in arson and vandalism had been arrested, while raids were being conducted to nab others.
Furthermore “The process of the identification of all the accused involved in the incident is underway with the help of cameras,” it said, adding that cases against the protesters had been registered at the Counter Terrorism Department and Golra police stations. The police said that 58 officers had been injured in the clashes. “Four police vehicles were burnt, nine vehicles were vandalized and 25 motorcycles were set on fire.”
Moreover all the miscreants involved in the violent acts will be brought to justice, it vowed. Police sources said three buses of the Punjab police; 12 vehicles, including a jammer jeep and an armored personnel carrier (APC) and motorcycles of the Islamabad police; six vehicles, including an APC and three pick-up vans of the Elite Force, and a police truck of the CTD sustained damages.
Meanwhile PTI supporters also smashed two buses of the Punjab Constabulary and a bus of Chakwal police. A pick-up van of the Islamabad police’s security division was also damaged in addition to a jammer vehicle. A pick-up and a prison van were left with smashed windshields while a van of Lohi Bher police station and a bomb disposal squad vehicle was also torched.
The motor transport department of the police also saw its two prison vans smashed, while an APC van of the operation division was also wrecked. According to a report submitted to the authorities concerned, an APC of the CTD was damaged, and three pick-ups were left with broken mirrors.
