Tag: Remand

LAHORE - A local court extended the physical remand of detained Pakistan Muslim League leader Moonis Elahi on FIA's insistence for four more days.
Moonis was presented before the court by FIA at the end of his 10 days remand. FIA officials informed the court that the investigation was still in progress and sought an extension in the remand.
A four-day extension was granted.
The courtyard of the Lahore district courts was jam-packed with the PML leaders, workers and

LAHORE - An accountability court on Saturday extended the judicial remand of Imtinan Saeed, Omeed Ayaz Mehmood and Faisal Rasheed until April 12. The trio is accused of embezzling Rs 140 million by obtaining loans on fake documents from the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP). Mehmood was the NBP Lytton Road Branch manager while Saeed was the bank's legal counsel.
Saeed and Rasheed established five companies including Paragon Leather, Imperial Chemicals, Ikhlaq Traders, Y2K Traders

LAHORE - Judicial Magistrate Ikhtisham Sadiq on Monday extended Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Chaudhry Moonis Elahi's physical remand until March 24 for his alleged involvement in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) land scam. Earlier, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) presented the accused in court to get an extension in his physical remand after completion of three days.
During the hearing, Moonis' counsel said that his

LAHORE - Judicial magistrate Ihtisham Sadiq on Friday handed over Member of the Punjab Assembly Moonis Elahi to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on physical remand until March 21. He is involved in the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam.
Earlier, FIA produced Moonis in the district courts to get his physical remand. He was brought there in an armoured personnel carrier (APC).

LAHORE - An accountability court on Friday handed over former Haj director Rao Shakeel Ahmad to NAB on physical remand until April 1. Rao is involved in piling up illegal assets and was arrested on March 17 in Lahore on charges of maintaining various bank accounts, through which he made heavy transactions. During the hearing, counsel for the accused Amjad Pervaiz argued that NAB initiated an inquiry against Rao in 2001 and at the end he had been declared innocent.
In spite of

PESHAWAR - A US national, said to be a former security contractor, arrested under the Foreigners Act from Peshawar on Friday was sent to prison on a judicial remand by a local court on Saturday. Erin Mark De Heaven, was arrested under Section 14 of the Foreign Act by the security personnel from outside a fast food restaurant on University Road.
After hearing the prosecution, the judge sent De Heaven on a judicial remand to Central Jail Peshawar. Prison authorities claimed of

LAHORE - An accountability court on Monday extended the physical remand of Danish Shamshad, accused of involvement in the Lahore Mass Transit System Project scam until February 26. Danish is a shareholder in more than 10 properties purchased by his father and key accused in the said reference.
Former Punjab Transport Department cashier Shamshad Gulzar embezzled Rs 401.155 million from funds allocated for the Lahore Mass Transit System Project. Separately, National Accountability

LAHORE: Model Town Courts Judicial Magistrate Aneeq Choudhary on Friday sent US consulate employee Raymond Allen Davis to jail on judicial remand till February 25.
Earlier, prosecution produced the accused before court after the police wrapped up a double murder investigation during the 14-day physical remand into the shootings of two Pakistani nationals, Faizan and Faheem at Qurtaba Chowk on January 27. A case has been registered against Davis in Lyyton Road Police Station for

DASKA - Sambrial Special Judicial Magistrate Shehzad Qaisar has sent the accused driver, Khizar Hayyat, to Sialkot District Jail on a 14-day judicial remand for killing a Sambrial-based old woman Sughra Bibi on Saturday evening when the official convoy of Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa was returning to Lahore from Sialkot.
Sambrial police seized the official vehicle and arrested its accused driver, Khizar Hayyat. The police registered a case against the driver under Section

LAHORE - US Consulate official Raymond Davis, who shot dead two Pakistani youths on Thursday, was handed over to the police on six-day remand on Friday. The police however has failed to arrest the other men so far - those in the SUV following Davis - accused of running over a motorcyclist while trying to rescue their colleague.
During the hearing in the court of Cantonment Judicial Magistrate Zafar Iqbal, Deputy Prosecutor Rana Bakhtiar Ahmad said the police had to question

RAWALPINDI - An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday extended for ten days physical remand of former city police officer (CPO) Saud Aziz and SP Khurram Shahzad in the Benazir murder case.
FIA brought both before ATC Judge Rana Nisar Ali Khan to seek an extension in their physical remand on the grounds that their cell-phones had not yet been found yet.
FIA prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar informed the court that the accused officers had handed over unused SIMs and phones, and

LAHORE - The Model Town judicial magistrate on Wednesday handed over Naveed Iqbal, step brother of Supreme Court Justice Javed Iqbal and alleged murderer of his parents, and another accused Abbas on physical remand to the Factory Area Police until January 23. Naveed was arrested on Tuesday on charge of murdering his parents along with Abbas and Ameen over a monetary dispute.
On Wednesday, the Factory Area Police produced the accused before the judicial magistrate and sought their

LAHORE - An accountability court on Monday extended the physical remand of Imtinan Saeed Advocate, Omeed Ayyaz Mehmood and Faisal Rasheed till January 24. They were involved in the embezzlement of Rs 140 million obtained from National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) as loan through fake documents.
The accused Omeed Ayyaz Mehmood was the manager of National Bank of Pakistan Lytton Road Branch while Imtinan Saeed was the legal council in the same bank. Imtinan Saeed and Faisal Rasheed made

LAHORE - Local judicial magistrate Irfan Basra on Monday sent Abdul Malik (Manager of Moonis Elahi) to jail on judicial remand till January 16. Abdul Malik was arrested by FIA during a raid at Moonis Elahi's office on the charges of transfer of Rs 20.2 million in the account of Mohsin Habib who is the main accused in National Insurance Corporation (NIC).
Mohsin Habib is son of Habib Ullah Warriach, who remained minister of state during the Mushrraf rule. During this period he

RAWALPINDI - An Anti-Terrorist Court on Wednesday denied the Federal Investigation Agency's request to extend the physical remand of former police chief of Rawalpindi Saud Aziz and former Superintendent Police Rawal Town Khurram Shahzad in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
The former police officials, who were arrested for alleged negligence of duty over the 2007 assassination of former prime minister, were produced before the court on Wednesday. The FIA had requested the ATC to

LAHORE - Judicial magistrate Irfan Basra on Tuesday handed over Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Chaudhry Moonis Elahi's business manager Abdul Malik to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on physical remand until January 4.
Malik was arrested on Monday during a raid at the Al-Tahoor Private Limited's office located in Garden Town.
He was arrested on charges of ties with a key accused of the National Insurance Company Limited

ISLAMABAD: A district court on Friday sent Abdullah Khokhar, brother-in-law of sacked minister for religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi, to jail on a judicial remand. Khokhar is accused of illegally receiving million of rupees from intending Haj pilgrims.
He was produced in the court of a senior civil judge who allowed a 14-day judicial remand. During the hearing, FIA presented evidence of bank accounts, claiming that the accused got money transferred online from pilgrims and