Fawad Ch sent to Adiala Jail.

ISLAMABAD -- A district and sessions court yesterday sent former federal minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) stalwart Fawad Chaudhry to Adiala Jail on a 14- day judicial remand in a sedition case.

The Islamabad police had registered a case against Fawad Chaudhry under sections 153A (promotion of enmity between groups), 506 (criminal intimidation), 505 (statement conducing to public mischief) and 124A (sedition) of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan on charges of using threatening language against the Chief Election Commissioner in Lahore this week.

Later on, he was arrested by police during a raid on his house located in Lahore and was taken to Islamabad.

Following this, an Islamabad court had handed Fawad over to the police in a two-day physical remand. Earlier, the Islamabad police produced Fawad before Judicial Magistrate Waqas Ahmed Raja after expiry of his two-day physical remand. The police investigators requested the court for a further sevenday physical remand of the exminister in the sedition case.

The prosecutor read the text of the first information report (FIR) registered against the PTI leader, noted the language used against the CEC and caretaker Punjab chief minister.

He said that they have matched the voice of the suspect with Fawad Chaudhry and a photogrammetry test is to be conducted.The prosecutor said that recoveries including laptop and mobile are still to be made from the accused. He sought further physical remand of the PTI leader. 'The accused has also admitted to the speech before the court on the previous hearing,' the prosecutor added.

He said that Fawad Chaudhry might be a senior politician but all are equal into the eyes of law and...