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Court extends Fawad’s physical remand by another three days

F.P. Report

ISLAMABAD: A court in Islamabad has extended the physical remand of former federal information minister Fawad Chaudhry by and another three days, and handed him National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) custody.

Fawad Chaudhry was produced before the duty judge in Islamabad on Friday as accountability court judge Muhammad Bashir was busy in another case at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.

Pronouncing the reserved decision, duty judge Shahrukh Arjumand accepted NAB’s request to extend Fawad Chaudhry’s physical remand.

Fawad Chaudhry was first arrested from his Islamabad residence on November 4 last year after a complaint was filed against him in Islamabad’s Aabpara Police Station for taking a Rs5 million bribe in exchange for a job.

In January, Fawad was taken into custody from his residence after he publicly “threatened” the members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in a media talk outside former PTI chief Imran Khan’s residence in Zaman Park. However, the then-coalition government said it had no hand in the politician’s arrest.

The politician, in June this year, issued an apology to the electoral watchdog for allegedly using “intemperate” language targeting the ECP and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja.

The Frontier Post

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