Ali Amin Gandapur remanded in police custody for one more day

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Ali Amin Gandapur has been granted an additional day of physical remand by the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday in a case registered under the Anti-Terrorist Act for threatening the officials of government institutions.  

The ATC judge, Raja Jawad Abbas, also ordered the Inspector General of Police Islamabad to provide all details of the first information reports (FIRs) filed against Gandapur by Tuesday, i.e. today.

During the hearing, the investigating officer requested the court for a five-day postponement of Gandapur’s physical remand for further investigation. However, the judge raised concerns about registering the FIR against the accused without a voice-matching test or an arrest warrant. He noted that the incident occurred on September 29 but the FIR was filed six months later.

The prosecutor argued that a five-day extension of Gandapur’s remand was necessary to conduct his voice-matching test at Punjab Forensic Lab, Lahore. Gandapur’s lawyer Dr. Baber Awan countered that the prosecution could obtain the voice sample proximately. Anyone’s voice could be fabricated using software, he argued.