A Lahore region court on Wednesday remanded telecaster Imran Riaz, who was captured the previous evening, in police care for one day in an extortion case.
Riaz was arrested at the Allama Iqbal Worldwide Air terminal late Tuesday night while he was leaving for Saudi Arabia for Pilgrimage. The visuals of the capture, which showed the writer clad in an ihram, circulated around the web via online entertainment.
He was subsequently introduced before Legal Justice Muhammad Kamran Zafar by the Nishtar Town police. As indicated by the primary data report (FIR), a duplicate of which is accessible with Dawn.com, Riaz has been blamed for maltreatment of trust. It conjured Area 406 (Discipline for criminal break of trust) of the Pakistan Correctional Code.
During the consultation today, the police looked for seven-day actual remand of Riaz. The investigator expressed that the broadcaster had acquired Rs0.25 billion from the complainant however he never returned the cash.
In the interim, Riaz’s attorney, Mian Ashfaq, affirmed that the argument against his client was phony. “The complainant was a specialist at Maryam Nawaz’s surveying station,” he battled.
In the wake of hearing the contentions from the two sides, the appointed authority saved the decision. Afterward, he conceded police one-day actual remand of Riaz.
Petitions recorded in LHC
Prior in the day, Riaz’s legal counselor Azhar Siddique recorded a request in the Lahore High Court (LHC) looking for subtleties of the primary data report (FIR) under which the telecaster was captured.
The request, a duplicate of which is accessible with Dawn.com, expressed that Riaz was to leave for Saudi Arabia for Pilgrimage from Lahore when “numerous common dresses officials from different specialists came and captured him without giving any subtleties” and “took him to an undisclosed area”.
“No data has surfaced regarding which FIR was utilized to catch the Candidate just before 11.06.2024, consequently, it is the need of the day that the respondents be called by this court and they illuminate this court with respect to which FIRs have now been enrolled, obviously, pointlessly, against the candidate because of which he was illicitly and for arbitrary reasons captured,” it said.
It added that Riaz’s name was taken out from the Leave Control Rundown on June 11.
The request supplicated that the appeal be acknowledged and the police, Government Examination Organization (FIA), inside secretary and the Counter Debasement Foundation be coordinated to put on record subtleties of the FIR under which the broadcaster was captured.
Independently, Riaz’s sibling documented one more request in the LHC requesting that the broadcaster be quickly let out of “unlawful and ill-advised care” and be created in court. It has been fixed for hearing before Equity Amjad Rafique.
The request, seen by Dawn.com, named the Punjab monitor general, Lahore capital city cop, Cantt administrator of police, FIA chief and digital wrongdoing wing chief as respondents for the situation.
It expressed that Riaz was “unlawfully and wrongfully” halted from voyaging abroad and was being held under “unlawful and unlawful” confinement.