The Rawalpindi registry of the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the release of Shehryar Khan Afridi, his brother Farrukh Afridi, Nadia Hussain, and Shah Jahan. The court ruled that their arrest was unlawful.
Shehryar Afridi rearrested after release: The senior PTI politician, though, was promptly detained again after being released from custody.
Justice Anwarul Haq Pannu pronounced the 15-day detention orders, issued by the Deputy Commissioner for all four PTI leaders, as unlawful and unconstitutional during the hearing of relevant petitions. He added that the court will not tolerate anyone acting in an unlawful or unconstitutional manner.
In the instance of the wheat theft reported to the Bahawalpur police station, the court also granted Shehryar Afridi protective bail.
Before Afridi’s release, police officers were on high alert outside the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. A large police presence had arrived at the location with DSP New Town. There were also PTI supporters there.
Upon his release from prison, Afridi was immediately Arrest again.
The authorities used Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Ordinance, 1960 to arrest the PTI leader at his Islamabad home on May 16. The government has the right to make arrests because to this ordinance.
On May 30, the authorities released Afridi from a Rawalpindi prison, but they promptly re-detained him in accordance with the same MPO rule. “Instigating/planning to organise an unlawful assembly/commit violence, delivering unlawful speeches to cause harm to human life and public/private properties,” the city police officer charged Afridi with.
Afridi allegedly remained imprisoned in a death cell at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi despite the Islamabad High Court (IHC) overturning the orders for his detention on June 6.