ISLAMABAD: A local court in Islamabad on Saturday sent former Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) chairman Zafar Hijazi on a 14-day judicial remand to Adiala Jail. Hijazi was taken into custody by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) earlier this month after the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) uncovered that the former SECP chairman had tampered with officials records. Hijazi was presented before the Senior Civil Judge Shabbir after his three-day physical remand with the FIA ended on Saturday. The FIA requested the court for a further three-day physical remand which was contested by Hijazi’s counsel, Azid Nafees, who argued that his counsel had already been in FIA custody for seven days. Rejecting the FIA’s request, the court sent Hijazi to Adiala Jail on a 14-day judicial remand. The first information report (FIR) against the former SECP chairman was registered for using forged documents under the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) at FIA’s Special Investigation Unit (SIU) in Islamabad. Published in Daily Times, July 30th , 2017.