PESHAWAR: An anti-terrorism court released four people the other day, who were arrested by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) last year.
They were accused of distributing anti-state pamphlets among the public with extremist literature.
The judge Mehmood-ul Hassan said that available evidence against the accused persons — Tayyab, Anas, Attaullah and Akber Shah — was not sufficient to prove that they had committed the offence.
The prosecution had claimed that on March 17, 2016, the CTD had received information that objectionable literature was being distributed around the Tableeghi Markaz. Upon receiving this information, a team of CTD raided the area and arrested the four accused, red-handed.
The prosecution claimed that this literature was propagating the ideology of Al-Qaeda, urging public to take revenge of the killing of Osama bin Laden from the Army.
The accused were charged under section 11 W and 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act and section 120-B and 124-A of PPC.
