Kazmi remanded to 14-day judicial custody

Court has sent Hamid Saeed Kazmi, former religious affairs minister to jail on 14-day judicial remand in multi-million Hajj corruption scandal, after FIA exhausted his 14-day physical remand. Kazmi will be kept under detention in FIA Academy's room number 1, which has already declared as sub-jail by the government.
Senior Civil Judge Mohammad Aslam Gondal resumed the hearing of the mega corruption case against Kazmi on Wednesday. The FIA investigation team presented former minister before Senior Civil Judge Mohammad Aslam Gondal, who granted 14-day judicial remand to Kazmi and sent him jail. The FIA will now present Hamid Kazmi before the Special Judge Central (SJC) Sohail Nasir in Rawalpindi on the completion of 14-day physical remand.
The FIA has arrested Kazmi on March 15, from the District Courts Rawalpindi premises, when the SJC Sohail Nasir rejected to extend the pre-arrest bail of the former minister the main accused of the multi-million Hajj corruption. Kazmi was sacked from his Ministry by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for his alleged involvement in multi-million Hajj corruption scam, as Supreme Court of Pakistan took a suo-motu action on a letter from Saudi Prince regarding the large scale corruption in Hajj 2010 arrangements. The apex court directed the FIA to hold a thorough probe into the scandal and bring the names of all involved to surface.
The former minister was then presented before the Senior Civil Judge Mohammad Aslam Gondal on March 16 for hearing due to security reasons and court granted five day physical remand of the minister in FIA custody. Later Senior Civil Judge extended the physical remand of Hamid Saeed Kazmi twice for five-days and four days, respectively.