Islamabad: Hassaan Niazi, Imran Khan’s nephew and legal adviser, was granted a two-day physical remand by an Islamabad court on Tuesday.
Once the trial magistrate ordered the remand, PTI appealed to a district and sessions court.
Sessions judge Nasir Javed Rana will hear the petition.
A day after his detention outside an Islamabad anti-terrorism court (ATC) for “misbehaving with the police,” Niazi appeared before a judicial magistrate.
Today’s Hearing
Hassaan Niazi’s counsel told the court that Khan’s focus person violated the ATC barrier and intimidated the policeman. The case also alleges that the lawyer resisted police frisking.
Niazi’s lawyer said an ATC granted interim release and claimed CCTV evidence indicated the PTI leader arrested while with lawyers.
“What will the investigating officer investigate, the vehicle color or where he was coming?” inquired the lawyer. He said Niazi arrested before the complaint registered and taken to many police stations.
According to Niazi’s lawyer Ali Bukhari, “All police measures are illegal”. He said his client was a lawyer with no criminal background.
The counsel told the court that the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had authorized Niazi to meet his legal team but he was denied.
Bukhari suggested dismissing the case due to police misconduct and punishing the investigating officer.
Sher Afzal Marwat, Niazi’s second lawyer noted that bogus cases filed daily and people taken to physical remand.
Moreover Marwat argued that “People’s rights abused since the new IG took charge”. In court, Islamabad’s top officer makes political statements.
Qaiser Imam, Niazi’s third counsel, told the court that parking the automobile in front of the barrier didn’t murder anyone.
“A case registered four hours after Hassaan Niazi’s arrest,” stated Imam.
Lawyer Faisal Chaudhry informed the court that he would swear that the police’s barrier assertion was false.
The investigator requested a seven-day physical remand for Niazi.
The prosecution then urged the court to examine how police treated, saying they stoned and beaten with sticks. He said the police wanted Niazi’s automobile.
“Hassaan Niazi cannot be discharged,” the prosecutor stated.
The police requested a seven-day physical remand, but judicial magistrate Abbas Shah granted only two days.
