Filing a Sedition Case Without Due Process is a Waste of Time and Resources

The Islamabad High Court has issued a detailed decision to dismiss the sedition case against PTI leader Shandana Gulzar.

The court termed the registration of the sedition case without due process as a waste of time and state resources.

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Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani said in a 9-page detailed judgment that there is no doubt that Shandana Gulzar’s statement is against individual personalities and authorities, but there is no element in it regarding inciting the people to revolt, Article 19 few specific Gives full freedom of expression with restrictions.
According to the judgment, the prescribed legal procedure was not followed in the sedition case against Shandana Gulzar, the record of the prosecution also does not prove that it is proper to register the case, the type of cases in which the legal procedure was not followed. should be excluded.

The court said that such criminal cases are not useful because it wastes time and state resources, and on February 1, the case registered against Shandana Gulzar in Women Police Station is dismissed.