Bani Gala janitor handed over to police claims of torture.

ISLAMABAD -- An employee of Imran Khan's Bani Gala residence handed over to the police has claimed that he was "tortured by Gilgit Baltistan police officials deployed at the PTI Chairman's Islamabad home", the law enforcement agency of the federal capital said in a statement on Sunday.

In the statement, the Islamabad Police confirmed that a man named Ashir, who is a resident of sector G-8 of the federal capital, was handed over to the law enforcement agency. He was present near the barrier set up outside the gate of the former premier's residence.

The police said that Ashir had been working as a janitor at the Bani Gala House for five years, adding that they were not informed by PTI Chairman Imran Khan, Shahbaz Gill or anyone from Bani Gala House of the presence of a "suspicious person" therein.

However, the police said that Ashir, in a statement recorded to the law enforcement agency, said that Gill and Khan's employees had

kept him in custody for two days'.

'GB police officials deployed at Imran Khan's residence tortured me. Neither has Shahbaz Gill returned the mobile and CNIC he confiscated from me,' the janitor told the police.

Furthermore, the Islamabad Police...

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