Gandapur handed over to Bhakkar police on one-day transitory remand

Gandapur handed over to Bhakkar police on one-day transitory remand

Pakistan

The Bhakkar Police had sought three-day transitory remand of Ali Amin Gandapur.

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - District and Sessions Court Islamabad on Thursday handed over Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Ali Amin Gandapur to Bhakkar police on one-day transitory remand, Dunya News reported.

The Bhakkar Police had sought three-day transitory remand of Ali Amin Gandapur. However, the Duty Magistrate, Naved Khan, handed over the PTI to Bhakkar police on one-day transitory remand.

Ali Amin Gandapur was arrested from outside the building of the Peshawar High Court’s Dera Ismail Khan bench on April 6 (Thursday). He had been charged of two criminal cases registered against him by DI Khan police and later he was sent to the central jail on a six-day judicial remand.

The PTI leader was taken to Islamabad by the Islamabad and Punjab police from Bhakkar on Saturday. A case has been registered against him with the Golra police of the capital city under charges of terrorism and treason.

An Islamabad judicial magistrate on Sunday remanded him into police custody for a day.

The first information report (FIR) mentions an audio leak, in which Ali Amin Gandapur had threatened that if Imran Khan is arrested, the capital city will be occupied and taken over. He had also threatened the Islamabad Police with dire consequences. The audio was aired on a private news channel, said the FIR.