A Karachi district and sessions court on Monday granted the Isl
amabad police three-day transitory remand of anchorperson and popular YouTuber Jameel Farooqi after he was arrested for “falsely accusing” the law enforcement agency of physically and sexually assaulting PTI leader Shahbaz Gill, a private TV channel reported.
A first information report (FIR) was registered agains
t the journ
alist a
t the Ramna police station. Farooqui was presented before Judicial Magistrate Ali Sher Chandio by investigation officer (IO) Mian Shehbaz. The
official requested the court to grant permission to shif
t the journ
alist to Isl
amabad.
A video shared on PTI’s
official Twitter showed the visibly distressed journ
alist handcuffed, accompanied by an Isl
amabad police
official, at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport. In the clip, Farooqui alleged that his clothes had been stripped off after which he was beaten up. “On orders of the home ministry […] just because I am speaking the truth […] they tortured me, removed my clothes and beat me. “The Isl
amabad police has obtained my transit remand a
t the moment to take me from Karachi to Isl
amabad,” the journ
alist said, adding that his
family and channel were still unaware of his whereabouts.
Earlier in the day, a spokesperson for Isl
amabad police in a statement said that a case had been registered against Farooqui a
t the Ramna police station. “In his vlog, the suspect falsely accused Isl
amabad police of sexually and physically assaulting Gill,” the statement said, which was also carried by Radio Pakistan. The anchorperson’s allegations are a reiteration of the PTI’s claims of Gill being “sexually abused” and “tortured both mentally and physically” by investigators during the ongoing probe against him in a sedition case.
The first information report (FIR) against Farooqui was registered on Sunday under Sections 499 (defamation), 500 (punishment for defamation), 501 (printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory), and 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
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