Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi was sent on a 14-day judicial remand to jail after being arrested a day ago.
He was earlier brought to the court of Duty Magistrate Syed Jahangir Ali in an armored police van.
It should be noted that a case was registered against Imran and the PTI Vice under Sections 5 and 9 of the Official Secrets Act, 1923. It is related to the “misuse” of alleged contents of a diplomatic cipher, cited by ex-premier Imran as proof of the attempt to remove his government.
During the hearing, the prosecutor sought a three-day physical remand of Qureshi. Whereas, Qureshi’s lawyer Ali Bukhari requested the court to discharge his client from the case.
شاہ محمود قریشی نے جوڈیشل ہونے کے بعد کمرہ عدالت سے باہر نکل کر وکٹری کا نشان بنایا، وکلا کے’’کون بچائے گا پاکستان، عمران خان عمران خان، اگلی واری فیر نیازی‘‘ کے نعرے۔ pic.twitter.com/kYpvpMli8L
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Meanwhile, Qureshi alleged that he was kept in a cold cell last night and was tortured mentally and physically.
Following his release from prison in the cipher case, Qureshi was re-arrested by Rawalpindi police on Wednesday from outside Adiala Jail in relation to a complaint registered related the violence on May 9.
Soon after the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rawalpindi revoked an order for detaining him for 15 days under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) because the Supreme Court had granted bail in the cipher case, police manhandled, pushed, and dragged the former foreign minister towards an armored personnel carrier (APC) stationed close to the prison gate.
