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Fawad Chaudhry applies for bail after being sent on 14-day judicial remand

The PTI leader was arrested for 'threatening' ECP official
Pakistan’s former information minister Fawad Chaudhry (C) gestures as police officials escort him after a hearing at a court in Islamabad on January 27, 2023. - An aide to former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested on January 25 for criticising election officials, police said, the latest step against the opposition as it tries to force early polls. (Photo by AFP)
Pakistan’s former information minister Fawad Chaudhry (C) gestures as police officials escort him after a hearing at a court in Islamabad on January 27, 2023. - An aide to former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested on January 25 for criticising election officials, police said, the latest step against the opposition as it tries to force early polls. (Photo by AFP)

Fawad Chaudhry filed a bail post-arrest petition in a district and sessions court in Islamabad, after being sent on a 14-day judicial remand on Friday morning.

The PTI leader has been sent to Adiala Jail for the remand. The police had requested the court for a seven-day physical remand.

Fawad Chaudhry told the court that as a spokesperson of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, his statements reflected the opinions of the party.

The police maintained that the two-day remand granted on Wednesday night had in effect been a one-day remand and more time was needed for a photogrammatic and voice matching test, which would have to be conducted in Lahore. The police also said that it was necesarry to conduct a search of the house. They added that the accused had already admitted to making the speech that the FIR was based on.

The court reserved judgement and announced it after a short delay. Rejecting the request for aphysical remand, the court sent him on a judicial remand for two weeks to Adiala jail.

The PTI leader was arrested from Lahore early on Lahore morning after a FIR was filed against him in islamabad’s Kohsar police station for ‘threatening’ an election commission official.

Bail petition

A post-arrest bail petition has also been filed by Fawad’s lawyers for an ‘unlawful arrest’. The petition also says that the PTI leader has been implicated in a case with ‘malafide intentions and ulterior motives to harass, pressurize and blackmail’ him.

Fawad was brought to F-8’s Kachehri before the court had even opened. A large number of PTI leaders and workers were also present at the venue.

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