A large contingent of police led by District Police Officer Abdul Rauf Qaisrani arrived at the entrance of the PHC circuit bench building when Gandapur along with his lawyer arrived there earlier in the day in an attempt to avoid his possible arrest.
After failing to get any relief, the police team arrested him and shifted him to an undisclosed location as soon as he came out of the building in the evening.
Earlier, Ali Amin Gandapur’s lawyer, Ghulam Muhammad Sapal, told reporters that his client had been granted anticipatory bail till April 8 by the PHC circuit bench on March 22 in the case of assault and firing on police in Punjab’s Bhakkar district. . He was asked to appear in court on April 12.
He said his client appeared in the sessions court on Thursday to seek anticipatory bail before arrest, adding that Gandapur’s protective bail was granted in all cases in the sessions court.
The lawyer said that when we came out of the courtroom, the doors of the session court were closed and the police were there to arrest Ali Amin Gandapur.
After approaching the sessions judge again who sought an explanation from the DPO, he was told that he had received instructions from “higher authorities” to arrest Gandapur, the lawyer said.
He immediately filed a petition with the PHC circuit bench, requesting the court to ask the police what cases were registered against Gandapur for his arrest. Before surrendering to the police, Gandapur alleged that the police were bent on arresting him even though he had secured bail from the court in all cases filed against him.
The PTI leader said that his lawyers sought details of the first information reports filed against him in Islamabad and Dera Ismail Khan and the sessions court was approached and he got bail.
He said that he has faith in the courts, that’s why he is appearing in all the cases. When a group of journalists present at the time of his arrest asked him where he was being taken after his arrest, he said he had no information.
He vowed to stand by PTI Chairman Imran Khan as according to him he was fighting for real freedom.
Meanwhile, HRCP said in a statement issued on Thursday, the arrest of PTI leader Ali Amin Gandapur under PPC Section 124-A, Sedition Act is deplorable, especially when Lahore High The court recently struck down this colonial law.
The RCP demanded that Amin Gandapur be released, and that the government and law enforcement authorities refrain from using such nefarious tactics to suppress political dissent.
