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ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad on Tuesday remanded lawyer and human rights activist Imaan Mazari and her husband for three days in a case registered against them at the Aabpara police station.
The police produced the couple in the court of judge Abdul Hasnat Zulqurnain and sought their remand custody for 30 days on the plea that a forensic was to be carried out of the video clip of the incident. Moreover, the prosecution said that two unidentified persons who had accompanied the couple were also to be arrested.
The prosecution said that Imaan Mazari and her husband endangered security arrangements put in place for the cricket team of England in Islamabad. They not only tried to break security cordon at Zero Point but also assaulted the policemen on security duty.
Defense counsel on the occasion said that the husband of Imaan had scuffled with a man in plainclothes not with police in uniform.
After hearing the two sides, the judge granted the police two days physical custody of the couple.
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