LAHORE MIRROR — The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday declared the arrest of PTI senior leader and former state minister for interior Shehryar Afridi as “unlawful and void” by the Islamabad police.
Afridi along with his wife was picked up on May 16 from his residence in Islamabad under Section 3 of Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Ordinance 1960, which enables the government to arrest persons “acting in any manner prejudicial to public safety”. His wife, however, was released later on the orders of the IHC.
On May 30, Afridi was briefly released on completion of his “house arrest” period under the MPO. The police arrested him shortly after being released from Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail as the Rawalpindi deputy commissioner had extended Afridi’s house arrest under MPO for another 15 days.
