Shahbaz Gill, a senior PTI official and Imran Khan’s chief of staff, filed a petition with the Islamabad High Court on Monday challenging the sedition charge brought against him, alleging that the police had booked him at the request of the federal government.
Gill has filed a new lawsuit in an effort to have the FIR against him dismissed on the grounds that it was filed with malicious intent.”To demonstrate its allegiance to the government, Islamabad Police registered the case. The lawsuit was only brought about to forward the federal government’s political objective, “There was a plea.
Prior to this, Gill received a notice from the IHC in response to the federal government’s appeal of the decision to deny a request for an extension of his physical detention made as part of a separate plea in a sedition case.
