By Ali Imran
ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad district and sessions court on Tuesday granted the police two-day physical remand of anchorperson and YouTuber Jameel Farooqui on grounds of further investigation and recovery of evidence.
The YouTuber was arrested from Karachi a day earlier for “falsely accusing” Islamabad police of physically and sexually assaulting PTI leader Shahbaz Gill.
Subsequently, a Karachi judge had given Islamabad police Farooqui’s custody after granting a three-day transitory remand to shift him to the capital. While being taken to the capital, the YouTuber claimed that he was tortured, stripped and kept at an undisclosed location for over 12 hours.
According to the court order Farooqui’s two-day physical remand was granted “subject to pre and post-medical examination”.
“It is the first physical remand of the accused and the IO (investigation officer) has clearly mentioned that the mobile phone and other device through which the objectionable was uploaded is yet to be recovered and the offences are yet to be investigated which is a valid ground for granting the physical remand of the accused,” it said.
Subsequently, the court ordered the police to produce the YouTuber on August 25.
