A district and sessions court on Friday reserved its verdict on the plea seeking an extension in the physical remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry in a sedition case filed against him by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The police requested the court for an extension in the remand, saying that the remand is required to carry out further investigation.
The PTI leader was produced before the court in Islamabad after the completion of two-day physical remand in a sedition case.
The court on Wednesday approved a two-day physical remand of the PTI leader in a sedition case turning down the Islamabad Police’s request of eight-day physical remand of the former federal minister.
Following the order, the capital’s police shifted the former federal information minister to the Counter-Terrorism Department’s (CTD) complex in Sector H-11.
The police — during the time that the verdict was reserved — also took Fawad to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), where he underwent a medical checkup and was declared fit.
The former federal minister vehemently denied all charges and demanded the case’s dismissal as it is “fraud and the FIR is a sham”.
Fawad’s lawyers told the court that the charges were politically motivated and since the PTI leader made the statements in Lahore, his case should have been registered in the city and not Islamabad.
The PTI leader was arrested from his Lahore residence in the wee hours of Wednesday after he publicly “threatened” the members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and their families in a media talk a day earlier.
His arrest drew strong criticism within the federal government’s ranks — which, although, has denied involvement.
