Contempt plea filed in Fawad Chardhry case.

LAHORE -- A plea filed in the Lahore High Court has sought contempt proceedings against 16 police officials, including the inspectors general of Islamabad and Punjab, along with the interior secretary and additional secretary, over repeatedly flouting court orders for the production of PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry.

Petitioner Nabeel Shahzad, cousin of Fawad Chaudhry, contended in his petition filed through Advocate Azhar Siddique that a plea had been filed, seeking recovery of Chaudhry, upon which the LHC had issued repeated orders after short intervals to the officials, including the IGPs, but in vain. The petition came up for hearing at around 12:10pm on January 25 and the court directed the officials to ask the respondents to produce Chaudhry at 1:30pm. The order was conveyed to the respondents but the PTI leader was not produced, the petitioner contended.

When the matter was again take up after an interval, the same directive was given again to the respondents, but it was not implemented. The order was also aired by the social media and TV channels.

This time, directives were issued to the IGs of Islamabad and Punjab police to appear in person along with Chaudhry, but...