LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders Khawaja Salman Rafique and Hafiz Mian Muhammad Nauman were released from police custody on Saturday for lack of evidence against them.
The lawmakers were arrested Thursday a day after their guards tortured a serving army officer on a busy public thoroughfare. According to Lahore police chief Shahzada Sultan they appeared in the Garden Town police station to offer arrest and join the investigation in the case.
Report citing police sources said the case was under active investigation and both suspects will be investigated after the Punjab Assembly session to elect the chief minister.
The police had mentioned the names of the PML-N leaders in a supplementary statement of the complainant of the first information report (FIR). The FIR was lodged by retired Maj. Mohammad Rashid, the father of Maj. Haris Chaudhry who, he alleged, was attacked by the unidentified persons on Ferozepur Road following a minor dispute when the vehicles of both sides collided.
He said the suspects tortured his son with iron rods, injured him and fled the scene.
Video clips went viral on social media showing the men hitting the army officer with an iron rod. The clips showed the officer lying unconscious on the road and the suspects abusing him and hurling life threats.
