Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Aliya Hamza was arrested yesterday and now she has been shifted to District Jail in Jhelum on judicial remand.
According to reports, she was first in Adiala Jail but now she is in Jhelum.
The Adiala Jail administration refused to let her stay there because of the overcrowding in the women’s barracks, which led to her being sent to Jhelum Jail instead.
Why was Aliya Hamza arrested?
The Rawalpindi District Court heard a case filed against five PTI activists including Aliya Hamza.
The case against Aliya Hamza includes charges related to incitement, resisting the police, blocking the road and interfering in official duties.
Earlier, Rawalpindi Police detained Aliya Hamza and other PTI workers. Around midnight, several workers of PTI and Aliya Hamza were arrested by police and shifted them to multiple police stations in the city.
Her legal counsel argued that when the cases against Hamza and other PTI workers were the same then how was it possible for three people to get judicial bail while other two got bail.
The PTI lawyers said that the court should treat all five accused equally. The court staff first asked for the discharge of two accused.
