Police on mission to arrest 'terrorist' GCU students

LAHORE - On the pressure of the GCU’s top management, city police have launched a massive crackdown late Wednesday at the residences of the university students after registering cases against them normally reserved for terrorists or those posing serious threat to the public order.

It is a rare incident in the long history of the GCU that cases under anti-terrorism act and criminal intimidation have been registered against the unarmed students on the complaint of university top management.

It is well to mention here that section 7ATA is a non-bailable offence under which the teenage students are booked. The case under section 7ATA is registered normally when the violators are reported armed with deadly weapons.

Now the police are legally bound to recover weapons from the custody of the ‘terrorist students’, a police officer commented on the condition of anonymity.

A police source said that police barged into the students’ residences by scaling boundary walls and also using other techniques for the arrest of hardened criminals. Policemen entered into some of the targeted houses through the adjacent buildings creating terror among the local residents.

The police booked scores of students who protested against the rustication of their fellows causing harassment to their families as well.