ISLAMABAD: Shahbaz Gill, chief of staff to former prime minister Imran Khan, who is currently in detention in connection with a sedition case involving his remarks critical of the army, on Thursday filed a bail application in a sessions court of Islamabad.
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader, in his application, said those who filed the case against him did so with a mala fide intent and out of a political grudge.
“My statement was twisted to implicate me in a false case,” he said, adding: “I am a professor and teach at foreign universities. And there was no justification for inserting the sections in the case registered against me.”
Therefore, Gill added, his bail application be accepted.
On Wednesday, a district and sessions court rejected the police’s request for an extension in the physical remand of Gill and instead sent him to Adiala Prison on judicial remand.
Islamabad police arrested the PTI leader on August 9 from the limits of Bani Gala police station after he made contentious remarks which the government claimed were aimed at inciting mutiny in the military during a talk show on ARY News.
Gill had said in the TV appearance that there were attempts to create hatred against the PTI among the middle and lower ranks of the military, whom he said loved the party.
He suggested the junior ranks were being pressured by the top brass and that these orders were against the wishes of the majority, and that the junior ranks should reconsider following orders that were against the law.
The police later registered the case against Gill under sections that included using derogatory remarks against state institutions.
