Legal team doesn’t get to meet Imran at Adiala

RAWALPINDI: An Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) Friday directed the Adiala Jail superintendent to allow the PTI founder chairman Imran Khan to meet his legal team but they did not get to meet him.

Judge Amjad Ali Shah allowed Faisal Chaudhry, Malik Ghulam Hasnain, Murtaza Sumbal and Raja Mateen to meet Imran. Faisal Chaudhry said the PTI will move the Islamabad High Court against the jail superintendent.

Talking to the media outside the jail, Faisal said the jail administration showed them a notification, according to which the PTI founder was in the police custody. However, when they contacted the investigation officer, Rashid Kayani, he refused permission for the meeting.

The PTI legal team said every accused had the constitutional right to meet his lawyers, adding that the PTI founder will now petition the Islamabad High Court against the physical remand on Saturday.

Faisal said the jail administration and the police were throwing the matter in each other’s court. He said the jail administration was not ready to cooperate, as the investigating officer had disappeared. He claimed that the PTI founder was treated inhumanely in the jail earlier and on November 26. He quoted the PTI founder as saying that he had been kept in solitary confinement for 36 hours. He said the PTI legal team was concerned that maybe their party founder was being mistreated again. Faisal said the attack on the PTI workers was a repeat of Jallianwala Bagh episode.