Sedition charges
\nIslamabad police asks judicial magistrate for 8-day physical remand of the PTI leader
\nNews Desk
\nIslamabad
\nA district and sessions court in the federal capital on Wednesday reserved its verdict on the arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry on charges of sedition for \u201cinciting violence against a constitutional institution\u201d.
\nThe PTI leader was arrested in the wee hours of the day from his residence in Lahore. A magisterial court in Lahore Cantt later approved Fawad\u2019s transitory remand to the Islamabad police.
\nA first information report (FIR) was registered at the Kohsar police station against Fawad on the complaint of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Umar Hameed, registered under sections 153-A (promotion of enmity between groups), 506 (criminal intimidation), 505 (statement conducing to public mischief) and 124-A (sedition) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
\nPolice later presented him before judicial magistrate Naveed Khan at the district and sessions court in Islamabad\u2019s F-8 area on Wednesday evening, where they asked for an eight day physical remand of the PTI leader.
\nAccording to the text of the FIR, during a speech on Tuesday Fawad had said that the status of the ECP is the same as a \u201csecretary\u201d, adding that the \u201cchief election commissioner signs documents like a clerk\u201d.
\nDuring the press talk, while strongly criticising the appointment of Mohsin Naqvi as Punjab\u2019s caretaker chief minister the PTI leader had also said that \u201cthose who are being appointed as the caretaker of [Punjab] government will be followed until they are punished\u201d.
\nAccording to Islamabad police, Fawad tried to ignite violence against the state institutions and aroused the sentiments of the people.
\n\u2018No basis for any case against me\u2019
\nDuring proceedings before judicial magistrate Naveed Khan at the district and sessions court in Islamabad\u2019s F-8 area, Fawad said that there was no basis for any case against him.
\n\u201c1,500 policemen are standing outside [the court] and I was handcuffed despite being a lawyer in the Supreme Court,\u201d he said, adding that he had been a federal minister in the past well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sedition charges Islamabad police asks judicial magistrate for 8-day physical remand of the PTI leader News Desk Islamabad A district and sessions court in the federal capital on Wednesday reserved its verdict on the arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry on charges of sedition for \u201cinciting violence against a constitutional institution\u201d. The PTI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n