Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The judicial magistrate has handed over Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) senator Azam Swati to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a 2-day physical remand.
PTI members Babar Awan and Faisal Chaudhry represented Swati before the duty judge after he was detained from his farmhouse in Islamabad on Sunday morning. A 3-member FIA team headed by magistrate Waqas Ahmad Raja raided Swati’s farmhouse to arrest him.
The agency on Saturday registered a new case against Swati over his controversial statement on Twitter, after he was also detained last month in a similar case. Saturday’s case was registered in the agency’s cyber-crime wing on the complaint of FIA’s Technical Assistant Anees ur Rahman under the Defamation and PICA Act.
“Earlier, FIA took me into custody without a warrant, today they have come along with a magistrate which is the proper way,” said Swati in a video message filmed at the time of his arrest. It should be noted that the 74-year-old was arrested from his residence on October 13 and was later released on bail.
