LAHORE: A district court in Lahore on Friday rejected FIA’s demand of physical remand, and sent senior news anchor Chaudhry Ghulam Hussain to jail on judicial remand for 14 days in a case pertaining to alleged bank fraud.
Chaudhry Ghulam Hussain was arrested from a coffee shop in Lahore’s Gulberg by the Federal Investigation Agency on Friday by FIA on charges of took a Rs57 million loan from a bank in 2003 by submitting fake documents.
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Earlier today, he was presented before a Lahore court where FIA submitted a plea seeking 14-day physical remand of the journalist.
During the course of proceedings, Azhar Siddiqui — Hussain’s lawyer — argued that the case was more than a decade old and the first information report (FIR) against his client was registered in 2011. “Will the FIA now work for banks to recover money?” He said that Hussain had never been accused of submitting fake documents.
The court then asked the FIA prosecutor about how Hussain was appearing on national television every day if he had been declared a proclaimed offender in 2013.
After hearing arguments, the court rejected FIA’s physical remand request and sent ARY News anchor Chaudhry Ghulam Hussain to jail on judicial remand.
