ISLAMABAD: The decision on the capital police’s request for the physical remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry has been reserved by a judicial magistrate in Islamabad.
After a district and sessions court earlier in the day accepted the Islamabad Police’s petition overturning a decision that sent the former minister on judicial remand and rejected Fawad’s request to discharge him from the sedition case, the PTI leader was taken to Judicial Magistrate Waqas Ahmed Raja’s court.
Following the filing of a case against him at the Kohsar Police Station, Fawad was taken into custody from his Lahore apartment on Wednesday. He is being held on sedition charges for allegedly openly “threaten[ing]” the members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in a media interview.He was brought before the court on Friday following the end of his physical remand, but Judicial Magistrate Waqas Ahmed Raja denied the prosecution’s request for an extension. The session court later overturned the judgement.
