[8] Supreme Court of Pakistan took suo motu notice of a tweet by Jan that was critical of the judiciary, and initiated contempt proceedings against him.
CCTV footage showed that he was forcibly removed from his car and beaten by persons in uniform as well as plainclothes.
[11][12][13][14][15][16] On the evening of 27 November 2024, Matiullah Jan, who had been investigating casualties from the 2024 Final Call protest of PTI, and his colleague Saqib Bashir were abducted by men in black uniforms from the parking lot of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad.
"[17] Hours before his abduction, Jan had appeared on a TV program where he read from what he claimed were hospital records contradicting the government's denial that live ammunition was used by security forces or that any protesters were killed during the dispersal.
A First Information Report (FIR) alleged that he was found with 246 grams of methamphetamine at a vehicle checkpoint in Islamabad's E-9 area.