- Sohail Afridi taken away after officers enter locked room.
- Babar Swati, Junaid Akbar additionally in protecting custody.
- Detained PTI leaders reportedly being stored at similar location.
PESHAWAR: Dysfunctional Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Sohail Afridi and different senior PTI leaders taken into protecting custody are being held collectively at an undisclosed location, based on info out there with Geo Information.
Afridi was taken into custody from the Chief Minister Home within the early hours of October 11 after preparations had been accomplished and the Pink Zone sealed by round 5am.
The chief minister was alone inside his locked room when the door was damaged open and two officers entered.
The officers remained with Afridi for round 30 to 40 minutes and held a dialog with him in a cordial environment. Afridi was reportedly anxious on the time.
He was subsequently taken into custody and moved to an undisclosed location. He was not handcuffed and no inappropriate remedy was reported through the course of.
KP Meeting Speaker Babar Saleem Swati was in the meantime taken into protecting custody from the Speaker Home, the place former Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister Khalid Khurshid was additionally current.
PTI chief Junaid Akbar, who was reportedly in a room linked to the kitchen on the Speaker Home, was additionally taken into protecting custody.
In response to info out there with Geo Information, the PTI leaders had been taken away with “dignity and respect” and are at the moment being held collectively on the similar undisclosed location.
Their cell phones and different belongings have additionally been taken away.
In the meantime, advocate Muhammad Bashir, who had filed a petition within the Peshawar Excessive Courtroom in opposition to Afridi’s detention, was picked up from outdoors the courtroom premises.
Attorneys subsequently approached the Peshawar Excessive Courtroom chief justice, who suggested them to submit a petition. Bashir was launched shortly afterwards.
Stories indicated that he had been detained beneath Part 3 of the Upkeep of Public Order (MPO).
