Sedition case: Fawad to be produced before court at 12:30pm 

Islamabad: A district and sessions court Saturday ordered the authorities to present Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry before the court by 12:30 pm as Islamabad police challenged Judicial magistrate's decision to reject their plea for an 'extension of physical remand'.

According to the details, the police in their plea requested the sessions judge to nullify the judicial magistrate Waqas Ahmed Raja's decision and extend Fawad's physical remand for further investigation.  

At the outset of the hearing today, Sessions Judge Khan issued notices to the parties and adjourned the hearing till 10:00 am.

The former information minister will now be produced before the court by 12:30 pm and the court will decide the fate of his physical remand.

On January 25, Fawad was presented before the court after the expiry of remand, however, the prosection’s request for an extension—stating it was imperative to carry out a further investigation— was turned down.

Fawad Chaudhry, who served as information minister from 2018 to 2022, was taken into custody after a first information report (FIR) against him was registered at Islamabad’s Kohsar police station on the complaint of ECP Secretary Omar Hameed.

Chaudhry was arrested at his home hours after he publicly criticised the coalition government for plotting to detain PTI chairman Imran Khan.

Fawad and other party leaders have been criticising the Election Commission for appointing a media tycoon, Mohsin Naqvi, as caretaker chief minister of Punjab.