Nawaz's security guards sent on judicial remand for assaulting cameraman

Security guards from former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif s protocol were sent to jail on a 14-day judicial remand on Tuesday for violently assaulting Wajid Ali Shah, cameraman of a private channel.

Mansab and Mohsin were produced before a civil judge in Islamabad. The judge directed to hand them over to police on judicial remand.

The accused also filed a bail plea during the hearing, following which the court issued a notice to the police.

Case of the incident has been registered under section 2-506 and 355 in secretariat police station on the plea of the cameraman.

Sharif’s three security guards including the main suspect Shakoor have been nominated in the FIR which says that the victim was tortured on the directions of chief security guard.

Earlier, on Monday (yesterday) a lensman of a private news channel was brutally tortured by these very guards over attempt to film Nawaz Sharif during media talk at Parliament premises where Sharif had come to meet his brother Shehbaz Sharif.

The repeat of brazen maltreatment occurred today when Nawaz Sharif reached the Accountability Court to appear in the hearing of Flagship reference he is facing. The security squad of Sharif shoved away the journalists and resorted to foul language. Intriguingly, on arrival at Court Nawaz Sharif evaded an avalanche of queries of reporters and passed by without speaking out.

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