PHC quashes sedition case against three PTI leaders
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has ordered the police to quash a sedition case identical to an FIR already registered by a police station against three Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leaders declaring that such acts amount to double jeopardy.
A bench consisting of Chief Justice Mohammad Ibrahim Khan and Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim ruled: “Courts are sanctuaries to protect the fundamental rights of citizens of the country and are under statutory obligation to respond in such situations to protect them from vexatious prosecution.”
The ruling came as the court accepted a petition jointly filed by Babuzai town mayor in Swat district Shahid Ali Khan…
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