RECORDER REPORT

ISLAMABAD: City police on Thursday registered a case against some political workers who allegedly raised ‘derogatory slogans’ against some state institutions during a protest staged by joint opposition parties in front of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) headquarters against alleged rigging in the general election 2018.

The case was registered on the complaint of assistant commissioner at Secretariat police station on late Wednesday night. In his complaint, the assistant commissioner said he came across a video which showed that ‘derogatory slogans were being raised against worthy state institutions.’

The police registered a case of terrorism, insult to judiciary, rioting and unlawful assembly. The police said the video sent by the assistant commissioner showed a man chanting derogatory slogans along with a few others.

He was identified as Muhammad Imtiaz Raja, a Rawalpindi resident. A woman named Kausar Gilani, a resident of Islamabad, was also named in the FIR. Several other persons shown in the video are yet to be identified.