ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday filed an appeal in the district and sessions court of Islamabad challenging the judicial magistrate’s ruling that sent the former information minister to Adiala Jail on a 14-day judicial remand.
The development comes hours after the police moved the court challenging Judicial Magistrate Waqas Ahmed Raja’s order rejecting their plea seeking an extension in the PTI leader’s physical remand.
The district and sessions court judge had already ordered the authorities to present Fawad before the court by 12:30pm, however, the police failed to produce him at the given time.
After a delay of over an hour, the police presented the PTI leader before the court. On the orders of the sessions judge, Fawad was uncuffed inside the premises of the court room
While the police requested the sessions judge to “nullify” the judicial magistrate’s decision and extend Fawad’s physical remand for further investigation, Fawad submitted a plea asking the court to discharge him from the case.
The petition submitted by Fawad’s lawyers on his behalf stated that the PTI leader should be discharged from the case instead of being sent on a judicial remand. Sessions Judge Tahir Mehmood Khan has issued notices to the prosecutor and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Fawad was arrested from his Lahore residence on Wednesday after the case was registered at the Kohsar Police Station on the complaint of ECP Secretary Omar Hameed.
He was presented before the court on Friday after the expiry of remand, however, the prosection’s request for an extension was turned down.
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