Court grants transit remand of Fawad Chaudhry.

LAHORE -- A local court on Wednesday granted transit remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry for producing him before Islamabad court in connection with a case.

Earlier, Islamabad's Kohsar police had produced the PTI leader before Judicial Magistrate Rana udassar

after arresting him in the early hours of Wednesday morning from outside his residence in a case registered on the complaint of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Umar Hameed

for "inciting violence against a constitutional institution".

The police requested the court to grant transit remand of the PTI leader for producing him before

court concerned in Islamabad.

However, Fawad's counsel opposed the plea for transit remand and submitted that Islamabad was just at a distance of four hours drive and no transit remand was required. He submitted that police could directly take his client to Islamabad and produce him in the court concerned.

The counsel further submitted that a petition had been filed before the Lahore High Court against illegal detention of his client. He requested the court to adjourn the hearing until the LHC decides the petition.

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