QUETTA: A judicial magistrate granted bail to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s nephew and PTI focal person Hassaan Khan Niazi against surety bonds worth Rs 1 lak here on Saturday.
An Islamabad court had on Friday approved one-day transit remand of the PTI chairman Imran Khan’s nephew to the Quetta police. The Quetta police had requested a transit remand to produce Hassaan Khan Niazi before the judicial magistrate of Quetta, which was approved by the court.
Judicial Magistrate Islamabad Mureed Abbas handed over Niazi to the Quetta police on one-day remand. The court ordered that Niazi should be produced by the investigating officer in the court on March 25 (today).
Case against Hassaan Khan Niazi
A team of the Quetta police had reached the Islamabad court on Friday, seeking the PTI leader’s remand. On March 18, a case was registered against PTI focal person Hassaan Khan Niazi at the Quetta Airport police station.
A district and sessions court had, on Thursday, rejected a police plea seeking an extension in the physical remand of Hassaan Niazi and sent him to jail on 14-day judicial remand in connection with intervening in the affairs of the state. Niazi was presented before Magistrate Mureed Abbas on completion of his five-day physical remand and the investigation officer pleaded to the court for extending the remand, saying his accomplice had been found but the pistol and vehicle were yet to be recovered. However, the court rejected the plea.
