Islamabad: A Pakistani antiterrorism court on Friday termed former military dictator Pervez Musharraf’s medical report as “fake” while rejecting his plea seeking exemption from court appearances in the 2007 judges’ detention case.

Seventy-two-year-old Musharraf last month flew abroad for treatment after the Supreme Court lifted a bar on his foreign trips.

Musharraf’s lawyer Akhtar Shah submitted the former army chief’s April 6 medical report along with a request to grant his client temporary exemption from appearing in court in Rawalpindi but the judge rejected both and upheld his non-bailable arrest warrants issued earlier this month.

Antiterrorism court (ATC) judge Sohail Ikram maintained that the former military ruler left the country in March but the report presented in the court is of April.

Musharraf’s counsel argued that his client can appear before the court provided his doctors allow him and the government provides him security. Upon this, the judge responded that Musharraf has failed to appear in his court proceedings for the last one-and-a-half years.

Islamabad police, in its report regarding Musharraf’s non-bailable arrest warrants, stated that the warrants could not be executed as he is in the Gulf since March.

The judge ordered Inspector General of Islamabad to find his whereabouts and produce him in court on May 20 when the next hearing of the case will be held.

Police registered the judges detention case on August 11, 2009, against Musharraf, who is accused of detaining at least 60 judges of the superior courts in their residences for over five months after imposing emergency in 2007.

The formal trial started 2013 and the former military ruler has been given exemptions from personal appearance 42 times.

Musharraf ruled from 1999 to 2008 when he stepped down.

He lived abroad for most of the time until his return in 2013 to contest elections but was implicated in several high-profile cases and was not allowed to leave the country.

Musharraf had said before leaving that he was going abroad to seek medical treatment for a spinal cord ailment which has now developed several complications and will “come back in a few weeks or months”.