Over 12,000 booked for damaging public property

The Islamabad police have booked 12,500 people for ransacking public properties, blocking roads and obstructing police from carrying out official duties during the protest demonstrations on Friday against the American sacrilegious movie. Police had so far managed to apprehend 59 accused from various areas of the city. According to the police record, First Information Reports (FIR) had been registered mostly against unidentified accused.
The Aabpara police on Friday night registered FIRs against 3,900 protesters from among whom only seven were nominated as accused.
The Aabpara police produced the accused before the court of Civil Judge Abbas Shah on Saturday. The court ordered the arrested accused to submit surety bonds worth Rs. 20,000 each for their release. However, only two accused could submit the surety bonds. On this, the court sent the remaining accused to Adiala Jail and ordered them to submit the surety bonds to ensure their release. The Secretariat police also registered FIRs against 6,000 protesters including 52 nominated accused for ransacking public property, launching an attack on police officials and setting motorbikes on fire. Apart from framing the 52 accused under different sections of the law, the Secretariat police also included the section of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) to punish the miscreants.
Later, the police produced the arrested accused before the Anti Terrorism Court, No. 1-Rawalpindi on Saturday. The learned Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman sent all 52 accused on a judicial remand for 14 days.
Meanwhile, the Sabzimandi police also registered FIRs against 600 unidentified accused for setting a Toll Plaza at IJP road on fire, while also damaging a government owned van and burning a car.
While sharing details of the attack on the toll plaza, a police spokesman said that those who put the toll plaza on fire had been identified through CCTV cameras and the police was searching for them.
Similarly, the Kohsar Police also registered FIRs against 2,000 unidentified people for damaging public property, setting a police picket on fire and looting police equipments. In addition, the police claimed to have foiled a bid of looting weapons from the Tarnol Police Station on Friday.
According to a police spokesman, one ASI sustained a bullet injury while five policemen received fractures in their arms and legs during the incident.