FAISALABAD: A Faisalabad anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Monday sentenced 59 PTI leaders and supporters to 10 years of imprisonment and acquitted 34 others in the case of an attack on former interior minister Rana Sanaullah’s house during the May 9, 2023 riots.
On May 9, 2023, PTI supporters, protesting party founder Imran Khan’s arrest, staged violent protests throughout the country, following which thousands were arrested. PTI legal team head Malik Khalid Shafiq confirmed the convictions, adding that 16 individuals were handed three years’ jail time.
The deadline given to ATCs to decide various May 9 cases had already passed earlier this month. Therefore, day-to-day hearings were being held in the case, according to Shafiq.
Last week, the Kasur Crime Control Department (CCD) presented former Faisalabad Civil Lines station house officer Zeeshan Khalid Randhawa as a witness during the trial.
The former SHO was already under arrest in a separate kidnap and murder case of a Kasur resident. A joint investigation team probing the case had been summoned by an ATC in July 2024 to submit the charge sheet.
