ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: A district court here on Friday sent Dr A.Q. Khan’s son-in-law to the Adiala jail on the charge of assaulting two members of the British High Commission, police said.

Saad Ali Khan had been arrested on August 9 by the Kohsar police for beating up the British diplomats, identified by Mr Lee and Ms Rose, under PPC 147, 149, 345, 352 and 506.

He was presented before the district and sessions judge who sent him to jail. The next hearing in the case has been fixed for Aug 26. Mr Khan was arrested following a complaint lodged by Mark Johnson, deputy security officer of British High Commission, with the Kohsar police stating that a British diplomat couple had been beaten up and injured by a man, Saad Ali Khan, on the night of August 7 and 8.

The arrest was made on the basis of a medico-legal certificate issued by the Federal Government Services Hospital, which said that Mr Lee suffered injuries to his teeth and Ms Rose to her eye.

An official said that Mr Khan claimed that he did not beat up Ms Rose and she was hurt when she tried to intervene in a scuffle with Mr Lee.

The incident occurred in Sector E-7, when Mr Khan was on his way home after visiting his mother’s house and the British couple were coming home after attending a party in a club, the police said.

The official said that Mr Lee allegedly made an obscene gesture while Mr Khan honked the horn.

Mr Khan was annoyed and he stopped his car and asked for the reason for the gesture. Instead of apologising, the official said, the diplomat allegedly used obscene language which led to the scuffle between them.

According to the statement of Mr Lee, Mr Khan and three other people attacked and injured him and his wife.