PTI's Ali Haider Zaidi arrested in 'fraud' case

Pakistan

Party condemns arrest, demands Zaidi's release

16 April,2023 09:07 am

KARACHI (Dunya News) – The Sindh police arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh chapter president Ali Haider Zaidi from the party’s provincial secretariat in Karachi in connection with a case lodged against him on the charges of fraud.

According to the first information report (FIR), the case was registered under Sections 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 471 (using as genuine a forged document), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).

The case was lodged at the Ibrahim Haideri police station.

Sources said that Mr Zaidi had been shifted to an unknown place after the arrest. “Malir investigation and operations unit arrested Mr Zaidi in connection with the commitment of alleged fraud of Rs170 million," sources added.

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Opposition leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh demanded Mr Zaidi’s release saying, “The police have arrested Mr Zaidi from the party’s secretariat without any arrest warrants.”

The fascist imported government was victimising the PTI, he said.

PTI's social media account shared a CCTV footage of the arrest showing how police broke into the secretariat, pulled Mr Zaidi out of his office and dragged him out of the secretariat, after he had tried to resist an officer, dressed in plainclothes, apparently asking him to come out.