He claimed that the remarks attributed to Gill in the first information report were not his comments made on ARY News.Ĭhaudhry added that he would also challenge in the Supreme Court (SC) the Islamabad High Court's order that rejected Gill's plea against his continued remand. Speaking to the media after the verdict, Gill's lawyer, Faisal Chaudhry, said the PTI leader's legal team was going to immediately file a bail application for his release and that the case against him was based on lies. Will file application for Gill's bail, says lawyer Even a case was registered during this period, he highlighted.įurthermore, the investigating officer had to determine whether the probe had been completed, he said, contending the request for the extension in the remand was not "illegal". The special prosecutor contended that a suspect's remand could be approved for up to 15 days, adding that progress made during the two-day remand was there for everyone to see. "We have to recover some things and interrogate the suspect." He continued that some progress had been made in the investigation but the probe was yet to be completed. "If it could be carried out in Islamabad, we would get it done here," he said. The prosecutor general explained that the order stated that the test might be conducted in the capital. The judge then observed that an August 22 court order in the case mentioned that the polygraph test would be conducted in Islamabad. The prosecutor clarified that the request was not made during the last remand period but the one that was suspended prior to that. Prosecutor Abbasi said the "main mobile phone" in Gill's use was yet to be seized and his polygraph test was to be conducted in Lahore.Īt that, the judge inquired whether the request for a polygraph test was not made during Gill's last remand.
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The special prosecutor informed the court that during the 48-hour period of Gill's physical remand, his room at the Parliament Lodges was searched and phones and four universal serial buses (USBs) were investigated.īut, he added, "we still want answers to some questions". "Not a second was wasted during the investigation against Shahbaz Gill," he said, adding that however, the probe was yet to be completed. He maintained that police were "interrogating the suspect everyday" and contended that police needed his custody to conduct a polygraph test.
Presenting his arguments for the remand's extension, Special Prosecutor Raja Rizwan Abbasi pointed out that in a separate but related case registered against Gill on charges of possessing unlicensed weapons, the PTI leader's judicial remand had been sought. Later, police produced Gill before the court and sought another seven days of his custody. The judge, however, pointed out that before the arguments it would have to be seen what was written by the investigating officer in the case file. He asked the court whether he should start his arguments. To that, Chaudhry replied in the negative and pointed out that the suspect was yet to reach even when it was past his scheduled time of arrival at 1pm. He then asked the lawyer whether Gill had arrived in court. The judge, however, remarked that the power of attorney had been signed earlier. The hearingĪt the commencement of the hearing, Gill's lawyer, Faisal Chaudhry, told the court that he intended to get a power of attorney signed today. The magistrate instructed the police to produce him before the court on September 7. "Physical remand cannot be granted repeatedly, for the same purpose, without any positive progress," it ruled, sending Gill to the judicial lock up. It stated that in Gill's case, despite the lapse of 15 days, neither the interim nor the complete report was presented by the prosecution. "If the investigation is not completed in the stipulated period of 14 days from the date of recording of the FIR then the officer-in-charge of the police station, within 3 days of the expiration of such period, forward to magistrate through the prosecutor an interim report stating therein the investigation till that extent." The judgement was issued by Judicial Magistrate Malik Aman, who sent Gill on judicial remand.Īccording to the court order, a copy of which is available with, the completion of every investigation without unnecessary delay was the requirement of every law and the police were bound to submit the investigation report in court.
The judgement comes as the two-day period of Gill's remand - initially approved last Wednesday - expired, much later than the scheduled date as the court concluded at previous hearings that the remand began late and as such remained incomplete.
An Islamabad district and sessions court rejected on Wednesday a request by the capital police for yet another extension of seven days in the physical remand of PTI leader Shahbaz Gill, who has been booked and arrested on charges of sedition and inciting mutiny in the army following his controversial remarks on ARY News.
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