Court sends Sheikh Rashid on 14-day judicial remand
ISLAMABAD (MNP) – A local court in Islamabad on Saturday sent Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed to Adiala Jail on judicial remand for 14 days in a case related to levelling allegations against former president Asif Ali Zardari.
The AML supremo was produced before the court of Judicial Magistrate Umar Shabbir amid strict security by the capital police where the police requested the court for another five-day physical remand of the AML chief along with a photogrammetric test.
During the hearing, the investigation officer informed the court about photogrammetry and voice-matching tests.
Meanwhile, the former interior minister said “It would be better if I be sentenced to death rather than the way police have kept me. They blindfolded and tied me to a chair for hours.”
Shiekh Rashid asked court to order the authorities to take him to a hospital to bandage his injuries and grant him Rangers’ security. At this, the court ordered to uncuff Mr Ahmed. The AML chief’s lawyer contended that the sections imposed in the case against Mr Rashid weren’t valid.
The AML chief was arrested by the Islamabad police in the early hours of Thursday from his home in a private housing society in the capital city. A case was registered against Sheikh Rashid on a complaint lodged by the vice president of PPP’s Rawalpindi chapter at the Aabpara police station. In a talk show, the complainant said, the AML chief accused the PPP co-chairman of having hatched a plan to use terrorists to assassinate PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
