Hit-and-run case: Court summons victim’s family

MNA challenges lower court order to register case against him

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday summoned the widow and the son of a man who was allegedly run over by a sitting legislator to appear in court on March 4.

They have been summoned on an application filed by Paksitan Muslim League -Nawaz MNA Rohail Asghar, who has challenged a lower court order directing the police to register a case against him.

Shaheen Bibi, the widow of security guard Raz Muhammad, had approached the lower court for directives to the police to register an FIR against the PML-N legislator, whom she has accused of killing her husband in a road accident in Blue Area.

IHC judge Noorul Haq Qureshi had summoned the Kohsar SHO to appear before the court on Friday after the PML-N leader through his counsel Faisal Mehboob requested the court to set aside the subordinate court’s order.

The Kohsar SHO told the court that no aggrieved party went to the police station to formally lodge a case following the lower court orders, so a case has still not been registered.

The counsel admitted that the car was owned by his client, but said it was being driven by his chauffer, adding that the chauffer also rushed the victim to a hospital after the incident.

Asghar’s counsel told the court that his client was giving an interview on television at the time of the accident.

He also told the court that the widow and the son had reached a compromise with his client’s driver, adding that the district court passed the order in haste and without summoning his client.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 13^th, 2016.