ISLAMABAD: A woman, who tried to forcefully enter Diplomatic Enclave without number plates on her car on Wednesday, was sent to jail on a judicial remand on Sunday, but landed in Polyclinic minutes later.

“The woman was brought to the hospital by police for a checkup and during electrocardiography (ECG) some premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) were observed due to which it was decided that she should be kept under observation for one day,” Polyclinic’s spokesperson Dr Sharif Astori told Dawn.

On Monday morning, he added, the woman would be examined again and can be discharged if her reports are normal.

PVCs are extra heartbeats that begin in one of the heart’s two lower pumping chambers (ventricles).

These extra beats disrupt the regular heart rhythm, sometimes causing the person to feel a fluttering or skipped beat in the chest.

She is under observation for extra heartbeats and can be discharged if her reports are normal on Monday morning, Polyclinic spokesman says

On Oct 17, the woman reached Gate-1 of Diplomatic Enclave in a black Honda car which did not have number plates. She told the police that she was going to the United States embassy.

However, she was not allowed entry as vehicles without number plates cannot enter the high security area. But the woman lost her temper and started threatening the officials and also used foul language.

She then dialed a number on her mobile phone and handed it over to a police officer.

The person on the line claimed that he was an embassy official and asked the police to allow the woman to enter the enclave. But the police refused and the woman left.

A video clip of the incident went viral on social media triggering a debate about how a citizen can misbehave with the police and force them to allow her to violate the law.

A case was registered against the woman on Saturday. State Minister for Interior Shehryar Afridi took notice of the incident and ordered the police to take action against the woman.

An official of the Secretariat police, Abdul Jabbar, told Dawn that as the First Information Report (FIR) had already been registered, a police team arrested the woman from a housing society in the federal capital on Sunday.

“The woman, a doctor by profession, seemed fine and healthy so we produced her in front of the judicial magistrate. The court sent her to Adiala Jail. However, later we learnt that the jail police had shifted her to the hospital where she was admitted,” he said.

Before the judicial magistrate, the woman’s lawyer argued that the clauses mentioned in the FIR were bailable.

The counsel also said his client was a heart patient and under pressure due to which her mental health can be affected.

He claimed that instead of helping her, the police officials had pressured her.

Judge Adnan Rasheed rejected the lawyer’s plea and directed the investigation officer to get a medical test conducted on her.

He said if the medical test confirmed that the woman was healthy she would be sent to jail otherwise she can be admitted to the hospital.

Dr Astori said cardiologist Dr Roshan Javed examined the patient and found PVC changes in the ECG.

In such cases, risk cannot be taken so it was decided to keep the patient under observation in the coronary care unit (CCU).

“The patient has been given medicines and she can be discharged on Monday morning if she is all right,” he said.

Published in Dawn, October 22nd, 2018