PTI’s Fawad Chaudhry Produced in Islamabad Court

January 27, 2023 at 9:54 AM
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Ahmed Mukhtar Naqshbandi

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry was produced in an Islamabad district and sessions court on Friday amid tight security after his two-day remand with the police expired.

An Islamabad lower court had, on the night of January 25 granted police two-day physical remand of Fawad, hours after he was arrested for “inciting violence against a state institution”.

Fawad Chaudhry threatened ECP officials

The PTI leader was taken into custody in the wee hours of January 25 after an FIR was registered against him at Kohsar police station of Islamabad on the complaint of an official of the Election Commission of Pakistan for “threatening” the electoral body’s members and their families. The hearing is currently underway in the courtroom of Judge Raja Waqas Ahmed.

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