A close aide of Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was sent to jail on a 14-day judicial remand on Saturday for violating tenancy laws, according to a media report.
Irfan Siddiqui, a noted columnist, was arrested during a late Friday night raid on his residence in the federal capital for not informing police while renting out his house under the tenancy law, Dawn newspaper reported.
He was shifted to the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) police station after being kept at the Ramna police station of Islamabad for some time.
Siddiqui, who served as the special assistant to the prime minister on national affairs during the PML-N government, was presented in the court of a judicial magistrate.
Police submitted an application to seek his remand. later, Siddiqui was sent to the Adiala Jail on a 14-day judicial remand.
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