Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, the spokesperson for PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, was granted pre-arrest interim bail by a sessions court in Islamabad on Thursday along with PPP Islamabad chapter President Raja Shakeel.
On Wednesday, the Secretariat Police Station had registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Khokhar, Shakeel as well as 20 others for rioting and attacking police officials during Bilawal and Asif Ali Zardari's appearance before NAB Rawalpindi earlier the same day.
The FIR was registered under Section 147 (punishment for rioting), Section 186 (obstructing a public servant in discharge of public functions), Section 149 (unlawful assembly), Section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), Section 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint), Section 109 (punishment of abetment if the act abetted committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment) and Section 353 (assault) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
As per the FIR, in addition to the above, there were about 40 to 50 others who had also committed the offences but managed to escape from the scene.
Scores of charged supporters gathered outside the bureau's office on Wednesday to receive their leaders had scuffled with security personnel.