PESHAWAR, July 13: Former world Squash champion Jansher Khan was arrested on Thursday after his pre-arrest bail application was dismissed by an additional district and sessions judge in a case about trespass and attack on a woman.

The court of Ahtesham Ali Khan ordered that the accused could not be granted pre-arrest bail.

The court also dismissed pre-arrest bail applications of Jansher Khan’s brother-in-law Mahboob Khan and four of his rivals, Abdul Shakoor, Kamran, Aamir and Asif, who have been accused the former champion of attacking him.

Police will present Jansher Khan and the five other accused before a judicial magistrate on Friday for getting their physical custody.

An FIR was lodged against Jansher Khan and his four companions with West Cant police station on June 7 by one Rukhsana Habib, accusing them of storming her house in Lal Kurthi area.

She claimed that her brother-in-law Abdul Shakoor, a retired air force official, had borrowed Rs1 million from Jansher Khan, who was his friend, in 2003 on the condition that he would pay interest on bank rate.

She said that Mr Shakoor had given to Jansher documents the house of of his brother Ghulam Habib.

The complainant alleged that Mr Shakoor had paid Rs1.7 million to Jansher, but he was demanding Rs4 million.

She also accused that the accused had stormed her house and occupied it forcibly by dislodging her and her children. She alleged that the armed attackers occupied her home after beating her and tearing her clothes.

Jansher’s counsel argued that he was innocent and he had been falsely implicated in the case.