ISLAMABAD
\nInvoking jurisdiction of the Islamabad High Court on Friday for post-arrest bail facility in sedition case, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Shahbaz Gill urged the court to get him release till final adjudication of the case against him.
\nIt has been reported that the IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah will take up the matter on Monday (September 5).
\nGill has been arrested on August 9 after he made controversial remarks allegedly about the army during an ARY News bulletin and has been detained since, amid claims of him being subjected to torture and sexual abuse during custody.
\nIslamabad Police have denied these allegations and sought extensions in his remand multiple times, maintaining that it was required to complete the case\u2019s investigation. Earlier this week, an Islamabad district and sessions court had dismissed the PTI leader\u2019s plea seeking post-arrest bail. Subsequently, he has filed a similar bail petition with the IHC.
\nCounsel for the accused person Gill submitted in the bail application that the case registered against Gill was \u201cpolitically motivated\u201d with \u201culterior motives and malafide intentions\u201d. \u201cFor charges under mutiny and sedition, approval and sanction of the federal government is a pre-requisite,\u201d , the counsel submitted claiming that no such approval was granted in this case.
\n\u201cWithout permission and sanction, the very registration of a first information report, followed by arrest, detention and remand under Section 167 CrPC, is a nullity in the eyes of the law.\u201d The plea stated that the FIR against Gill had been registered after the passage of one day, which it claimed was used to \u201ccook up a story by manipulating and twisting the words of his statement\u201d.
\nIt further argued that the PTI leader was a senior party member and ever since the incumbent government came to power, it had been trying to lodge a case against him and put him behind bars.
\n\u201cThese repeated attempts made to incarcerate him clearly and obviously point towards political victimisation of the petitioner. It is, therefore, a politically motivated case in which offences have recklessly been applied,\u201d the petitioner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Invoking jurisdiction of the Islamabad High Court on Friday for post-arrest bail facility in sedition case, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Shahbaz Gill urged the court to get him release till final adjudication of the case against him. It has been reported that the IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah will take up the matter on Monday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1884,289,10467,10466,445],"class_list":{"0":"post-281125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-application","9":"tag-athar-minallah","10":"tag-hear","11":"tag-post-arrest-bail","12":"tag-shahbaz-gill"},"yoast_head":"\n