Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Asad Umar and Shah Mehmood Qureshi failed to get relief from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for the May 9 riot cases as they were absent from the hearing on Thursday, allegedly due to the police preventing them from entering court premises.
IHC Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir heard the bail applications for the former federal ministers regarding the cases filed in the Tarnol police station for the May 9 protests. Petitioners’ lawyer Ali Bukhari said that the two leaders came to the high court at 7:30 am but police personnel prevented them from entering the court. He urged the court to watch the CCTV footage from the IHC gates.
