Ali Zaidi remanded into police custody in 'fraud' case

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh president Ali Haider Zaidi has been handed over to police on a three-day remand in a ‘fraud’ case, ARY News reported on Monday.

Ali Haider Zaidi was arrested, last week, after a case was registered against him at Ibrahim Hyderi police station on charges of ‘fraud’.

The PTI Sindh chapter president was brought to the court from Gadap police station in an armored vehicle. A large number of PTI workers reached the Malir court to show solidarity with the former federal minister.

During today’s hearing, Ali Zaidi’s counsel pleaded with the court to quash the case against his client as on the dates on which the money transactions were carried out, Ali Zaidi was not in Pakistan.

However, the police opposed the plea and pleaded with the court for physical remand to further investigate the case.

Malir court after rejecting the plea of dismissing the court handed over Ali Zaidi to police on a three-day remand.

Charges

The first information report (FIR) was registered on the complaint of a property dealer, Fazal Elahi, against the PTI leader.

The FIR was registered under Sections 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) and 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The complainant, in the FIR, claimed that Zaidi had taken a loan of Rs180 million from him in 2013. He said that as surety, Zaidi give him the papers of a property valued at Rs16.7 million and promised to pay the remaining Rs12.5 million in the next six months.