Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday submitted an application to the Magistrate of Kohsar police station for his medical examination.
In his petition, the PTI leader said that the federal police is not conducting his medical test, which is a violation of constitutional rights.
It further said that PTI leaders Senator Azam Khan Swati and Shehbaz Gul were mentally and physically tortured by the police.
“Police may do what they did in the past and that’s why they are not getting me medical,” he added.
The former federal information minister requested the court to take immediate notice of the violation of the orders.
According to sources, Islamabad Police has transferred Fawad to Lahore. Police sources further said that his photography test will be conducted in Lahore.
He said that his voice will be matched in the forensic laboratory.
A day ago, the local court of the federal capital sent Fawad to jail on two-day physical remand in the sedition case registered against him by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Judicial Magistrate Waqas Ahmad Raja announced the verdict after – earlier – a District and Sessions Court had accepted the Islamabad Police’s plea and quashed the verdict sending the former minister to judicial remand. had gone and rejected the request of Fawad to be acquitted from this case.
In an order issued on Saturday, the judicial magistrate ordered the Islamabad police to produce the former federal information minister in his court on Monday (January 30) after the expiry of his remand period.
Fawad – who is facing sedition charges for publicly “threatening” members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) at a media talk – was released on Wednesday after a case was registered against him at the Kohsar police station. He was arrested from his residence in Lahore.
After the physical remand ended, he was produced in the court on Friday, but Judicial Magistrate Waqas Ahmed Raja rejected the prosecution’s request for extension. Later, the Sessions Court annulled the decision.
‘Banana Republic’
Taking notice of today’s incident, PTI Chairman Imran Khan criticized the authorities and said that the manner in which Fawad was presented in the court is proof of the government’s “revenge”.
Referring to the current government and its leaders as “pharaohs”, Khan also cited the treatment of PTI leaders Azam Swati and Shehbaz Gul as proof that the country is in turmoil.
In a series of tweets, the PTI chief said: “Taking Fawad to court handcuffed and head/face covered like a terrorist shows the low and vindictive level of imported government and state. It has arrived.
Taking Fawad to court handcuffed & head/face covered like a terrorist shows the low & vindictive levels Imported govt & State have reached. The treatment of Fawad Ch & Azam Swati & Gill before him leaves no doubt in people’s mind that now we are a banana republic.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) January 28, 2023
“The treatment of Fawad and Azam Swati and Gill before him leaves no doubt in people’s mind that now we are a banana republic,” the ex-prime minister, who was ousted last April, said.
Khan further added: “The law of the jungle now prevails where might is right & the Constitution & law of the land have been totally subjugated by the Pharaohs of today.”
