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PTI’s Seemabia Tahir, Tanvir Raja among 62 booked for damaging state property in Pindi

Rawalpindi’s Sadiqabad police have booked 62 PTI leaders and workers for violating Section 144 and damaging state property during a rally on Sunday evening.

According to a first information report filed by Sadiqabad Sub-inspector Abdul Ghafoor on Sunday night, a rally comprising 300-350 people — led by Seemabia Tahir and Tanvir Aslam Raja — gathered outside the divisional election commissioner’s office and blocked the road at around 6:30pm.

The FIR said PTI workers gave “inciteful speeches and pelted stones on officers and employees stationed there”, which damaged the bonnet and windows of a state vehicle.

The case was registered under sections 147 (rioting), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution ofcommon object), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 341 (wrongful restraint), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of Rs50) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code, as well as the Maintenance of Public Order ordinance.

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