ISLAMABAD: Former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry was arrested from his residence in Islamabad on Saturday.
Police sources stated a crew, together with officers from the capital police, raided the residence of Mr Chaudhry and took him to an undisclosed location.
The sources stated the previous PTI chief, presently a member of Istehkam-i-Pakistan Occasion, was arrested in reference to a case registered on the Aabpara police station on August 22, 2022 below part 188, 186, 506, 341 and 109 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Moreover Mr Chaudhry, AML chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, PTI leaders Murad Saeed, Faisal Javaid Khan, Asad Umer, Raja Khurram Nawaz, Ali Nawaz Khan, Faisal Vawda, Shahzad Wasim, Sadaqat Ali Abbasi, Shibli Faraz, Saifullah Khan Niazi, Shehryar Afridi, Fiazul Hassan Chohan, Firdous Shamim Naqvi, Asad Qaiser, Zahir Abbas Khokhar, Ghulam Sarwar Khan and over 1,000 unidentified folks had been booked within the FIR.
In a put up on X (previously Twitter), Mr Chaudhry’s spouse Hiba Fawad stated, “Fawad arrested and brought to unknown place.”
Justice of the Peace sends PTI chief Asad Qaiser on judicial remand in corruption case
In her different posts, she later stated Fawad was taken away by Islamabad police, however he was not obtainable at any police station within the capital.
His brother Faisal Chaudhry additionally posted on X stating that Fawad was “kidnapped from his home in Islamabad by officers in plainclothes when he was taking breakfast.” He stated regardless of his repeated request, they didn’t present any arrest warrant or order.
Mr Faisal stated he went to the Aabpara and Kohsar police stations, however Fawad was not there. The Islamabad police are additionally not telling something about him, he added.
Asad Qaiser despatched to judicial lock-up
A Justice of the Peace in Islamabad on Saturday remanded former speaker Nationwide Meeting Asad Qaiser to judicial lock-up in a corruption case registered in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The PTI chief was arrested throughout a raid on his residence collectively carried out by the Anti-Corruption Institution (ACE) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Islamabad police on Friday.
Senior civil decide Qudratullah despatched Mr Qaiser to jail with a path to the ACE to finish the authorized formalities inside per week to formally take him in custody.
In the course of the course of listening to, station home officer Banigala Ishfaq Warriach knowledgeable the decide that Mr Qaiser was arrested in a corruption case and requested to ship him to judicial lock-up to allow the ACE’s interrogation.
PTI’s legal professionals Shuaib Shaeen and Barrister Gohar Ali Khan raised sure objections on the arrest.
Advocate Shaheen questioned the legality of the arrest by the capital police in a case registered in KP.
He termed the arrest a political victimisation, including the arrest had been made a day after the date for the subsequent normal elections was introduced.
Speaking to mediapersons exterior the periods courtroom, Mr Shaheen stated Qaiser had been remanded to judicial lock-up for per week in a three-year-old case.
He stated the grievance was lodged towards Mr Qaiser with the ACE in 2020 and the primary data report was registered in 2023.
FIR towards ex-NA speaker
The ACE registered the case towards Mr Qaiser and 4 officers of the well being division on November 2, accusing them of committing irregularities within the buy of apparatus for Gajju Khan Medical School, inflicting a lack of Rs16.4 million to the exchequer.
The FIR was registered on the ACE police station Swabi below sections 409, 162 and 167 of Pakistan Penal Code and 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The FIR alleged that the central processing unit (CPU) of the electromyography machine was lacking. Furthermore, faulty furnishings was bought for the hospital.
Speaking to Daybreak, Asad Qaiser’s brother Abdul Waheed alleged that ex-defence minister Pervez Khattak and former KP chief minister Mahmood Khan, who’ve fashioned PTI Parliamentarians, had been behind the arrest of his brother.
(Muqaddam Khan from Swabi contributed to this story)
Printed in Daybreak, November fifth, 2023
