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Police make fresh attempt to arrest Imran as stalemate enters 2nd day

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Islamabad: The stalemate between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters and law enforcement personnel continued for a second consecutive day on Wednesday near Imran Khans Zaman Park residence in Lahore amid fresh attempts to arrest the former Prime Minister in connection with the Toshkhana case.
TV footage also showed PTI workers outside Zaman Park setting motorcycles and other vehicles on fire, Dawn reported.
For more than 15 hours, PTI workers engaged the Islamabad police — aided by their Punjab counterparts and later Rangers personnel — in pitched battles that continued late into the night with no signs of relenting.
So far, the police have suffered around 30 casualties during the clash, while at least 15 PTI men have been detained.
In the latest video posted by the PTI on its official Twitter handle, the party claimed that the police had started tear gas shelling at Khan’s residence once again, Dawn reported.
Separately, in a series of tweets, the former premier said that after a day of facing tear gas, cannons with chemical water, rubber bullets and live bullets, “we now have Rangers taking over and are now in direct confrontation with the people”.
“My question to the establishment, to those who claim they are neutral’: Is this your idea of neutrality, Rangers directly confronting unarmed protestors & leadership of the largest political party when their leader is facing an illegal warrant & case already in court & when govt of crooks trying to abduct & possibly murder him?” he asked.

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March 15, 2023
Hyderabad: Police arrest BJYM activists for rioting, damaging public property at TSPSC

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Hyderabad: The Begum Bazaar police arrested seven activists of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha for rioting and damaging public property at the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) during ptotest on Tuesday.
The BJYM under the leadership of A. Bhanu Prakash, State President of BJYM protested at the TSPSC office at Nampally Road on the AE (Civil) exam paper leak issue.
A case under Sections 143, 147, 448, 353 r/w 149 of IPC and Sections 3 & 4 of the PDPP Act was booked at Begum Bazaar.
The seven persons against whom the case was booked are Bhanu Prakash, Shiva Shankar, Pavan Reddy, Jamalpur Ayush, A Raju Netha, Manmadha Rao and Pujari Ramu Yadav. All were arrested and produced before the court.
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March 15, 2023
My arrest part of London plan: Imran Khan

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Islamabad: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan accused the federal government of planning his arrest saying this is all part of a “London plan” to finish all cases against the country’s former premier Nawaz Sharif.
In a video message, Imran said, “This is part of the London plan and an agreement has been signed there to put Imran in jail, make the PTI fall and finish all cases against Nawaz Sharif.”
He further stated that he doesn’t understand the reason behind the attack on people as he had already assured that he will be present in court on March 18.
These comments came as the tension prevailed in Lahore in the early hours of Wednesday. More contingents were called to PTI chairman’s Zaman Park residence — where a stand-off between party supporters and law enforcers has been going on for more than 14 hours — for the former prime minister’s arrest.
Imran said to prevent any chaos, he had given an undertaking to the Lahore High Court Bar Association president who then attempted to forward it to the DIG who was coming to arrest the PTI chief but the latter did not meet the president.
“According to Code of Criminal Procedure Section 76, if this surety bond is given to the arresting officer, then I cannot be arrested,” Imran said.
The PTI chief said the DIG had no reason to not accept the undertaking and pointed to ill intentions.
The protests broke out in Islamabad, Peshawar, and Karachi after Imran called on his supporters to “come out” following police’s use of tear gas and a water cannon on supporters outside Zaman Park.

The Punjab police sought more water cannons on both sides of Canal Road and also fired tear gas shells at PTI workers, Samaa English reported.
In Peshawar, a large number of PTI supporters demonstrated outside the press club. After holding the demonstration, PTI workers blocked Sher shah Suri road and started marching towards the Governor House.
Islamabad police said PTI protesters had blocked Tarnol Road but timely action had been taken to reopen it for traffic. “A case has been registered in Tarnol Police Station against the PTI workers who blocked the road on the orders of Imran Khan,” a police officer said.
Chowrangi, Karachi, people staged a dharna by setting tires on fire against the atrocities being carried out by the police in Zaman Park.
Two non-bailable arrest warrants were issued for the PTI chairman on Monday after he failed to appear in courts in cases linked to the Toshakhana reference and threatened a woman additional district and sessions judge.
The 70-year-old ex-premier has been recovering from a gunshot injury from an assassination attempt in Wazirabad last year and has skipped hearings in several cases, the Dawn reported.
The PTI chief was supposed to appear before two district and session courts in Islamabad today but Imran’s lawyers filed petitions seeking an exemption from the hearings citing security reasons.
Imran has thrice skipped indictment hearings in the case. He is accused of concealing, in his assets declarations, details of the gifts he retained from the Toshakhana — a repository where presents handed to government officials from foreign officials are kept.
On March 7, the IHC suspended Imran’s non-bailable arrest warrants till March 13 and instructed him to appear before the sessions court.
At the outset of the proceedings on Tuesday, Imran’s counsel Khawaja Haris informed the court that his client would not be able to appear. “He is not refusing to appear, but due to security threats he cannot be present,” Imran’s lawyer said.
He recalled that the IHC had asked the sessions court to initiate legal proceedings against the PTI chief as per the law if he failed to appear before the court on March 13, the Dawn reported.
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March 15, 2023
TN: Coimbatore tense after arrest of Hindu Munnani workers

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Chennai: Tension continued to grip Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore city on Tuesday after the arrest of two Hindu Munnani workers.
The two were arrested on Monday, along with as many others, for allegedly assaulting migrant workers from West Bengal employed in a gold smithery unit.
Surya Prakash,19, and Prakash,23, are active workers of Hindu Munnani and they had picked up a quarrel with Gowtham Siyamel Kattuvam, 39, a native of West Bengal and two of his friends working in Coimbatore.
Two others, Pragadeesh and Velmurugan who were also arrested with the Hindu Munnani activists are college students.
According to Variety Hall police which arrested the accused, the four entered into a quarrel with Govind and two of his other accomplices and later assaulted the migrant workers.
The migrant workers then left the scene and reached their accommodation when two other of their colleagues narrated the assault by the four.
According to police, a case was lodged by the migrant workers at Variety Hall Police station and this led to the arrest of the four people, including two Hindu Munnani activists, on Monday.
Coimbatore is a sensitive area and the arrest of Hindu Munnani activists has upped the ante by the police. Coimbatore police have ordered a strong police contingent to be put in charge to maintain the law and order in the area.

The serial bomb blasts in February 1998 in Coimbatore had left 58 people dead and more than 200 injured. The blasts were carried out by the Islamist organisation Al Umma whose leader SA Basha is still languishing in jail.
This has left Coimbatore a highly sensitive city where police have always been on an alert with stepped-up security.
It may also be noted that the car blast in Ukkadam near the Sangameshwara temple on October 21, 2022, on the eve of Deepavali had left a 29-year-old youth, Jameesha Mubin, charred to death.
On inquiry, police found that it was a botched-up attempt for a massive killing near the temple but the car blasted before reaching a crowded place thus charring the main conspirator, Jameesha Mubin to death.
The police have always been on alert after the February 14, 1998 blasts in Coimbatore, and the arrest of two Hindu Munnani activists has now led to further beefing up of security.
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March 14, 2023
Non-bailable arrest warrants issued against former Pak PM Imran Khan

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Islamabad: Two non-bailable arrest warrants were issued against ousted prime minister Imran Khan on Monday for failing to appear in courts in the Toshakhana case and for threatening a woman magistrate while addressing a public gathering here last year.
Khan, the 70-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician, who has been recovering from a gunshot injury from an assassination attempt in Wazirabad last year, has skipped indictment hearings in these cases.
The courts of Additional District and Sessions Judge Zafar Iqbal (hearing the Toshakhana case) and Senior Civil Judge Rana Mujahid Rahim (hearing the threatening judge case) issued arrest warrants for Imran and instructed the police to present him before the courts on March 18 and March 21 respectively.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief was in the crosshairs for buying gifts, including an expensive Graff wristwatch he had received as the premier at a discounted price from the state depository called Toshakhana and selling them for profit.
Meanwhile, a team of Islamabad Police flew to Lahore to arrest Khan for threatening a woman judge after a district and sessions court issued his non-bailable arrest warrant for failing to attend the hearing in that case.
The case against Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was registered in August last year, over his remarks at a rally here, in which he warned Additional District and Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry and top police officials of dire consequences for their “biased” attitude towards his party.
He also blamed them for the treatment meted out to his aide Shehbaz Gill, whom he alleged was subjected to torture in judicial custody.
Initially, Khan was booked under various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code after the Islamabad High Court initiated contempt of court proceedings against the former premier.

In September last year, Khan appeared before the sessions judge to personally apologise to Chaudhry.
Consequently, the Islamabad High Court removed terrorism charges against Khan.
However, a similar case was filed against him after the FIR was registered.
Khan has heavily criticised the state institutions after a botched attempt by police to arrest him from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore earlier this month.
According to Khan, he was facing at least 80 different cases in various courts across Pakistan.
Khan was ousted from power in April last year after losing a no-confidence vote in his leadership, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy targeting him because of his independent foreign policy decisions on Russia, China, and Afghanistan.
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March 13, 2023
BSF Man Dies Of Cardiac Arrest

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SRINAGAR: An Assistant Sub-inspector of Border Security Forces died of a suspected heart attack in Mendhar, Poonch on Monday morning, officials said.
Identifying the deceased as one B L Jonko, the officials told that the ASI rank Officer complained of being unwell while he was getting ready for his routine duty. The officer, they said, soon after collapsed and started frothing from mouth.
“Upon sensing emergency, the colleagues evacuated him to SDH Mendhar where despite all possible efforts, the officer couldn’t be saved”, they said.
BMO Mendhar has also confirmed to the news agency GNS about the death of the officer at a health facility in Mendhar.
It has been in the meantime learnt that police has initiated investigation into the possible cause of death of the officer. (GNS)
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March 13, 2023
Iran arrest over 100 for suspected poisonings of schoolgirls

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Tehran: Iran’s Interior Ministry has said that more than 100 people in 11 provinces have been arrested on charges of involvement in the recent incidents of student poisoning at the country’s schools.
The Ministry announced the arrests in a statement on Saturday published on its website, listing the provinces as Tehran, Qom, Zanjan, Khuzestan, Hamedan, Fars, Gilan, West Azarbaijan, East Azarbaijan, Kurdestan and Khorasan Razavi.
The statement noted for some of the arrestees who used poisonous substances as a “mischievous” way to escape classes, and the authorities have given them necessary warnings and instructions, Xinhua news agency reported.
Some other arrestees are individuals with “hostile motivations,” the statement added, noting they sought to cause fear and anxiety among people and students. The authorities are investigating them to find out if they are connected to terrorist groups.
More than 700 students in over 30 schools across Iran have fallen victim to mysterious poisoning cases since November 30, 2022, when the first case was reported in the Qom province. Most of them were soon released from the hospital after receiving treatment, according to the official news agency IRNA.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Monday urged law enforcement to pursue anyone responsible, vowing to give maximum punishment to the perpetrators.
The Iranian Interior Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that its investigation revealed that the diffusion of certain “stimulant substances” among students led to their poisoning symptoms in some schools over the past weeks.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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March 12, 2023
KCR unfolded drama to save Kavitha after Sisodia’s arrest: Bandi Sanjay

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Hyderabad: Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Bandi Sanjay Kumar criticised the Bharat Rashtra Smaithi (BRS) chief K Chandrashekhar Rao for making a hue and cry over Sisodia’s arrest after sensing a threat for his daughter and BRS MLC K Kavitha.
Speaking to reporters at the BJP party headquarters, Sanjay claimed that the letter released to the media by the office of KCR on Sunday did not have the signatures of any of the opposition leaders.
Bandi Sanjay further ridiculed the letter purported to have been written by the leaders of various opposition parties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing concern over the arrest of Aam Admi Party leader and former deputy chief minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia.
He pointed out that K Chandrashekhar Rao was silent when there were allegations against his daughter Kavitha but unfolded a drama to save his daughter after Sisodia’s arrest.
“KCR has mastered such tricks and it must have been fabricated by him. Except for AAP, which is hand in glove with Bharat Rashtra Samithi in the Delhi liquor scam, no other party has officially responded to it. The two parties have ganged up and their intention is to see that there should be no investigation into any of their scams,” he said.
He pointed out that if Sisodia was not guilty, he would have got bail from the court.
“KCR knows that his daughter Kavitha will be the next to get arrested. That is why he is making a hue and cry over Sisodia’s arrest,” he said.
“How can he stoop down to the level of releasing a letter without obtaining the signatures of other party leaders?” he asked.

He alleged that in the past KCR had created a forged letter in the name of the Telangana BJP president on the flood relief from the Centre and also on Dalit Bandhu implementation.
“We shall soon collect one crore signatures on the corruption and scams of KCR and submit a representation to the President of India,” he added.
On KCR’s allegation that the Modi government was targeting the opposition parties, Sanjay said Modi’s philosophy was not to leave anybody if they made any mistake.
“But what is KCR doing? Is he not filing cases against the opposition leaders who question his misrule? He doesn’t give permission to the opposition leaders to stage dharnas and agitations but is foisting false cases against them,” Bandi pointed.
Delhi excise scam so far:
Sisodia was arrested by the CBI and later remanded to judicial custody by Rouse Avenue District Courts. His bail plea is also pending before the court which will hear it on March 10.
The ED has filed two charge sheets, a main and a supplementary charge sheet, in the case and has made 11 arrests so far.
Butchibabu Gorantla is the former auditor of MLC K Kavitha whose name surfaced in the case was granted bail on March 7 and was asked to surrender his Passport.
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March 7, 2023
ED makes 11th arrest in Delhi excise policy scam

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Delhi: In the latest development in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday arrested Arun Pillai. This is the 11th arrest made by the ED in the case.
Pillai was representing the South Group, which allegedly gave kickbacks of Rs 100 crore to the AAP leaders that were allegedly used in the Goa elections.
The South Group was represented by Abhishek Boinpally, Arun Pillai and Buchi Babu. Boinpalli facilitated the transfer of Rs 100 crore kickback in connivance and conspiracy with Vijay Nair (Aam Aadmi Party’s communication in-charge) and his associate, Dinesh Arora.
A land parcel worth Rs 2.25 crore in Vattinagulapalle, Hyderabad, owned by Pillai was recently attached by the ED.
Pillai will be produced before Rouse Avenue District Courts later in the day. The ED is likely to seek his two weeks custodial remand.
On March 2, liquor businessman Amandeep Dhal, the director of Brindco Sales Pvt Ltd was arrested by the ED. His questioning led to the arrest of Pillai, said sources.
Dhal allegedly played a major role in the formulation, conspiracy and kickbacks paid by the south group. He had got a draft copy of the liquor policy before it was released. Dhal allegedly shared the draft copy with Binoy Babu. The ED has also alleged that he made arrangements of meeting between South Grop persons and Vijay Nair.
The ED has claimed in the supplementary charge sheet that Vijay Nair, on behalf of leaders of the AAP received kickbacks to the tune of Rs 100 crore from the South Group, whose prominent faces are Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, Raghav Magunta, Sarath Reddy and K. Kavitha, the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K, Chandrasekhar Rao.

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March 7, 2023
Imran jumped into his neighbour’s house to evade arrest

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Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan jumped his residence’s wall and escaped to his neighbour’s home to evade arrest, Pakistan Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah claimed on Monday, a day after the former Prime Minister’s hide-and-seek drama.
The minister, in a press conference in Islamabad, said: “Yesterday, the team that went to arrest Khan faced a lot of drama. There are rumours that he [Khan] jumped into his neighbours’ house [to hide]. After a while, he surfaced from somewhere and delivered a huge speech,” The News reported.
Sanaullah’s comments came after an Islamabad police team came to Lahore for arresting the PTI chief but without the court summons. The law enforcers returned without an arrest as the party told them that he “wasn’t home”, The News reported.
On February 28, Additional Sessions Judge Zafar Iqbal issued the former prime minister’s non-bailable arrest warrant for continuously failing to appear before the court in the Toshakhana case.
The minister admitted that if the police wanted to arrest the former prime minister, this wasn’t an appropriate strategy. “The police went there to inform him about the court’s orders. But he is a shameless person.”
Sanaullah added that when the authorities want to arrest and present him before the court, they will do so without hesitation. The interior minister added that Khan misused his authority when it came to Toshakhana gifts, The News reported.
The minister said that the deposed prime minister who was ousted from power in April last year and has since been protesting against the government will have to answer before the court.

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March 6, 2023