 LAHORE: An anti-terrorist court granted bail on Wednesday to 40 Jamaat-e-Islami workers who were arrested during the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal strike on April 2. The court set bail at Rs 20,000 each. The 40 workers were arrested at the Tameer-e-Sirat College and Mansoora Degree College. Muslim Town, Wahdat Colony and Hanjarwal police registered cases against them under Section 7/A of the Anti-terrorist Act. Defence counsel Hafiz Abdur Rehman Ansari said the workers had done nothing that could be called "terrorist activities". He said every citizen had a right to protest against inflation and crime, which is all these workers were doing. He said there was no proof that the accused had damaged property.
| It was old property, beat-up property. It coulda been damaged when they got there. Or it coulda been transients... Do you get the sneaking idea the judge owns a turban? |
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