- Sessions court takes up review plea per order of Supreme Court of Islamabad.
- Special Prosecutor Rizwan Abbasi claims that “Jill is lying”.
- He speaks more interrogation and polygraph test required in case.
Islamabad District and Session Court on Wednesday took up in review plea application for detention of PTI senior leader Shahbaz Gill in mutiny case filed against him, according to the order of Islamabad High Court (IHC).
IHC instructs the judge of the court session to rehear the case over in governments plea dismissal appeal of Gill’s physical arrest duty magistrate.
Gill’s lawyers Salman Safdar and Faisal Chaudhry appeared. in court while Judge Zeba Chaudhry listens plea.
At the beginning of At the hearing, Special Prosecutor Rizwan Abbasi told the court that a judicial magistrate had placed Gill in police custody. for two days, but the investigator demanded for extension in arrest.
He said that duty magistrate should considered all aspects of case, but he turned down the request.
“How is he [magistrate] take Gill’s statement for in final statement? – he asked.
Abbasi argued that pre-trial detention of provided for at least 10 days in ordinary cases, while this is the case of criminal CONSPIRACY.
He claimed that the accused PTI leader was lying. again as well as again which means further interrogation and a polygraph test is required.
special The prosecutor further stated that Gill already admitted that his driver It has one of his mobile phones.
“IO clearly wrote in in plea that it’s not just about recovery [of the phone] but there are other aspects that need subject to investigation,” he said.
After finishing of arguments special the prosecutor, Gill’s lawyer Salman Safdar made arguments. He claimed that the matter against Gill founded on bad faith and political revenge because he mentioned names of nine PML-N leaders including Maryam Nawaz, Ayaz Sadiq and others.
He complained that certain aspects of the foundation of asking for detention secret while the case record no protection provided.
He said it was necessary to find out why the police want Gill is to be taken into custody.
“Case filed on in selection of words and speech […] and the police have a speech.”
He also objection over admissibility of case, saying that the applicant is a Justice of the Peace who filed a case on on behalf of of bureaucracy and the army, but a treason case cannot be brought without permission of federal government.
In addition, he said that the sections introduced in happening of death penalty and life imprisonment, asking “whether these sections apply on such a speech.
“Jill made a little wrong statements, but anything can be wrong but they are not subject to betrayal or criminal conspiracy,” he said.
Gill’s lawyer also claimed that Gill had been taken into custody for three days and the request did not turn down immediately. He said that IO failed to complete investigation in three days, while the forensics department sent reports within 24 hours.
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Gill was arrested last Tuesday afternoon from Banigal Chowk in the capital a day after the scandalous remarks on a private TV channel. It was subsequently booked on accusations of mutiny and incitement of participants of state institutions against pakistani army.
Treason case filed against him in the Kosar police station in several departments of of the Pakistan Penal Code, including 124-A (sedition), 131 (sedition or attempt to seduce a soldier, sailor or airman from his duty), 153 (unreasonable provocation with mean cause rebellion, if rebellion is committed; if not committed), 153-A (inciting hatred between different groups, etc.) and 505 (statements promoting public mischief), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), etc.
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