A court has ordered 25 students to be sent to jail for attempting to settle in the United Kingdom using fraudulent visas.
The District and Sessions Court in Islamabad rejected the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) request for an extension of the students’ physical remand and instead placed them in judicial custody for 14 days.
The suspects were presented before Judicial Magistrate Ahmed Shehzad Gondal. Prosecutors alleged that the students had tampered with passports in an effort to enter and settle in the UK.
During the hearing, defence lawyers filed bail applications for the accused. The court issued notices to all parties and scheduled the next hearing for 24 March, during which it will hear legal arguments on the matter.
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