A PTI protesters during an anti-govt rally in Rawalpindi in October 2016. Photo: Reuters

ISLAMABAD: Workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) taken into custody during the party?s ?November 2 lockdown? last year were acquitted of all charges on Friday.

Golra police had registered an FIR against several PTI workers, armed with ?dandas? [sticks] for indulging in ?unlawful? activity when the party initiated its protest ?lockdown? of the capital.

The suspects, already out on bail, had sought their acquittal under Section 249-A of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

The plea stated that no evidence was recovered against the accused, adding that they were taken into custody while travelling in a vehicle.

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The magistrate accepted the petition and ordered acquittal of all the accused in the case seeing ?no chances of their conviction?.

The magistrate also ordered for their bail bonds to be released and sureties discharged. 

PTI had announced that it will ?lockdown? Islamabad on November 2 to pressurise the prime minister to hold himself accountable for his alleged association with offshore accounts owned by his family that were identified in the Panama Papers.