Karachi (Staff Report/Agencies): Sindh Prosecutor General Faiz H Shah on Thursday informed the Sindh High Court that PTI Senator Azam Swati, who has been in detention since Nov 27 over his controversial tweets about senior military officials, had been shifted to Islamabad and the cases registered against the senator have been categorised as “C-class”.
A two-member SHC bench, comprising Justice KK Agha and Justice Arshad Hussain Khan, took up the plea filed by the senator’s son, Usman Swati, who sought the quashing of charges against the senior Swati over his tweets about military officials.
Swati was initially booked by the Federal Investigation Agency in Islamabad over a “highly obnoxious campaign of intimidating tweets against state institutions” and subsequently arrested by the agency.
Later, multiple first information reports (FIRs) were registered against him in Sindh and Balochistan for using “derogatory language” and “provoking the people against the army”.
Earlier, the SHC barred the provincial police from arresting Senator Swati in more cases.
At the outset of the today hearing, Inspector General of Sindh Police Ghulam Nabi Memon apologised to the court for his comments during the previous appearance.
Meanwhile, Sindh Prosecutor General Faiz Shah informed the SHC that Swati’s custody has been given to Islamabad Police. He also added that the cases registered against the senator have been categorised as “C-class”.
At this, Justice Karim Khan Agha lauded the Sindh government and IG Memon for resolving the “problem”.
The court also directed that the C class report should also be submitted to the concerned courts in three days.
The court then disposed of the petitions.