ISLAMABAD: Former federal information minister Fawad Chaudhry will be produced in the court at 11:30 am after the expiry of his two-day physical remand and photogrammetry test at the Forensic Lab in Lahore.
At the beginning of today’s hearing, Fawad Chaudhry’s lawyer Babar Awan requested Judicial Magistrate Waqas Ahmed Raja to restart the hearing.
The judge then directed the police to produce the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader at 11:30 am after conducting a medical examination.
Fawad – who is facing sedition charges for publicly “threatening” members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) at a media talk – was arrested 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 court on Friday, but the judicial magistrate rejected the prosecution’s request for extension.
Later, the Sessions Court annulled the decision.
On Saturday, the judicial magistrate granted two-day police remand and directed the authorities to produce him in court after the remand ends.
The police had sought further custody, pleading that they were not given enough time to interrogate Fawad Chaudhry and conduct photogrammetry tests. The PTI leader was taken to his residence in Lahore on Sunday to recover the communication equipment.
Fawad applied for a medical examination.
On Sunday, Fawad 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 subjected to mental and physical torture by the police.
“The police might do what they did in the past and that’s why they are not doing my medical,” he added.
The former federal information minister requested the court to take immediate notice of the violation of the orders.
