A Rawalpindi court on Thursday rejected the Punjab police’s plea seeking PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s custody and sent the former foreign minister to jail on 14-day judicial remand in a fresh case linked to May 9 riots.
The development comes a day after Qureshi was manhandled and re-arrested outside Adiala Jail in connection with an attack on the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi on May 9 — when widespread protests erupted across the country after ex-premier Imran Khan’s arrest.
Media reports said the PTI leader was also implicated in a dozen similar cases.
Qureshi was released from Adiala Jail on Wednesday after the Supreme Court had approved his post-arrest bail in the cipher case. However, the PTI leader, who tried to talk to the Punjab police on multiple occasions, was pushed and whisked away from the prison. The PTI leader was initially moved to the Cantt police station by the police, who maltreated him.
Qureshi was presented before the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed Jahangir Ali.
