BHC adjourns case against Akhtar Mengal

QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court on Friday adjourned the last criminal quashment application filed by BNP-M leader Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal and the other party and BSO leaders challenging the FIR registered against them on the charge of treason.

The case was fixed before a single bench headed by Chief Justice Amanullah Khan Yasinzai who was out of station and did not hear the petitions, applications and appeals which were fixed for hearing before him.

Sardar Akhtar Mengal and other BNP-M and BSO leaders Abdul Rauf Mengal, Habib Jalib advocate, Muhiddin Baloch, Amanullah Baloch, Jahanzeb Jamaldini, Jahanzeb Baloch, Nazeer Ahmed Baloch and Shafi Muhammad Baloch filed a joint criminal quashment application challenging the FIR No 80/2004 Panjgur.

The applicants stated that the SHO police station Panjgur had registered the case with treason charges on mala fide grounds after their addressing the public gathering at FC ground in Panjgur on June 9, 2004.

They said that they had not delivered any speech against the government or state and pleaded to the court to quash the FIR No. 80/2004 registered with Panjgur police station.