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Police on Friday produced Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry in a court in the federal capital after his two-day physical remand in a sedition case ended today.

The former information minister was brought to the district and sessions court where judicial magistrate Waqas Ahmed Raja is hearing the case. The prosecutor has pleaded for extension in physical remand as interrogation in the case is yet to be completed. Fawad s lawyer Babar Awan and Faisal Chaudhry are also present in the court.

At the outset of the hearing, the prosecutor said voice-matching test had been undertaken while photogrammetry test is yet to be conducted. He said the suspect attempted to incite hatred against ECP officials through his speech. He also sought permission to search the house of the Imran Khan s close aide to recover laptop and mobile phone.

On Wednesday, Duty Magistrate Naveed Khan handed over the PTI stalwart in the custody of Islamabad police on two-day physical remand after he was arrested from his resident in Lahore in a case filed over hurling threats at officials of the Election Commission of Pakistan and their families. The investigating officer had sought eight-day physical remand of the former minister but the request was rejected.

At the outset of the hearing, PTI’s lawyers requested the court to remove the handcuffs of Fawad Chaudhary, Fawad Chaudhary asked the court to tell the Islamabad police not to do this, there are 1500 policemen outside, and he is handcuffed, adding, "I am a lawyer of the Supreme Court, and I want to talk to my family for five minutes and five minutes to my lawyers."

"It is unfortunate that we are taking revenge against each other in politics," he said. Fawad requested that the case against him be dismissed, arguing that if the case continued, free speech would end in the country.

The counsel of the ECP, Saad Hassan, read out the text of the FIR. In his arguments, the lawyer said that the ECP is a constitutional institution, and it has all the rights to hold elections. He said that the commission was being targeted under a well-thought-out plan, and the accused tried to provoke the citizens, while they are role models for the public. The purpose of his speech was to provoke the groups.

Saad Hassan told the court that Fawad targeted the families of the ECP members, adding that the PTI leader was promoting hatred against the institution. He went on to say that the people behind the speech also needed to be identified, adding that there was sufficient evidence in the media against the PTI leader.

The ECP lawyer further added that the charges of sedition are also included in the FIR, adding that the members of the Commission are being threatened, the accused has been remanded, and further investigation is to be done.
Mr. Hassan, while presenting his arguments, said that the PTI leader called ECP a clerk, to which the former minister again repeated his words, on which the court asked Fawad Chaudhary to come to one side and let the other parties come to the other side.
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