As he left for Saudi Arabia for the Haj on Wednesday morning, anchor Imran Riaz was detained at the Lahore airport, according to his attorney.
“He was arrested by unidentified people who were accompanied by policemen.” He also mentioned that there had been an altercation at the airport.
The attorney for the anchorperson continued, “Imran Riaz has been granted bail in all the cases registered against him.”
Riaz was about to leave Lahore for the Haj from Saudi Arabia when “many civil-dresses officers from various authorities came and arrested him without providing any details” and “took him to an undisclosed location, “It is imperative that the respondents be summoned by this court and they inform this court as to which FIRs have now been registered, of course frivolously, against the applicant due to which he was illegally and arbitrarily arrested,” the statement read.
“No information has surfaced as to which FIR was used to apprehend the Applicant on the eve of 11.06.2024.”
It further stated that on June 11, Riaz’s name was taken from the Exit Control List.
The plea asked for the petition to be granted and for the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the interior secretary, the police, and the Anti-Corruption Establishment to be instructed to document the specifics of the Federal Investigation Report (FIR) that led to the anchorperson’s arrest.
In a different filing, Riaz’s brother asked that the anchorperson be brought before the court and promptly released from “illegal and improper custody” in the LHC. A hearing before Justice Amjad Rafique has been scheduled.