HARIPUR, Oct 14: A judicial magistrate rejected the bail application of Maulana Ilyas Qadri on Saturday.

He and his six guards were arrested by the Khalabat police on charge of illegally detaining 112 people.

According to an FIR lodged by one of the victims, Waseem Shahid, Maulana Qadri and his guards had been running a private jail in the name of a detoxification centre over the past several years.

The complainant told police that the detainees were kept in shackles, physically and mentally tortured and some of them sexually abused.

Police recovered 112 people, including seven Britons of Pakistani origin, from the centre and sent them to their families. They registered a case under sections 342, 506 and 511 of the PPC, 337/12 of the Hudood Ordinance and 7 of the Suppression of Terrorist Act against the accused and sealed the centre.