Islamabad district and sessions court on Tuesday granted police one-day physical remand of former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry in a case pertaining to financial fraud.
The ex-PTI leader was arrested from his Islamabad residence last week in a police raid and was moved to an undisclosed location. His family had claimed he was “abducted by men in plainclothes”.
Besides Fawad, 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 people were also booked in the FIR. On Sunday, the former minister was remanded in police custody for two days.
On Tuesday Fawad was brought to court amid tight security. Footage aired on television showed his hands bound and face covered with a black sack.
