Inspector murder case: Ayyan booked for terrorism, police tell court

Court refuses to record model’s statement in light additional of ATA charge

RAWALPINDI: A local magistrate on Thursday refused to record the statement of model Ayyan Ali in the Customs Inspector Chaudhry Ejaz Ahmed murder case after a public prosecutor told the court that she has been booked under Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).

The model had approached the local magistrate to record her statement in the murder case after the Waris Khan police refused to entertain her written statement she had sent to the police via courier.



The Customs officer was killed in the Waris Khan police limits in June of last year. When Special Judicial Magistrate Gulfam Latif Butt took up Ayyan’s application, Public Prosecutor Malik Bilal told the magistrate that the court could not hear the model’s plea as her name had been included in the murder case under Section 7 of the ATA. Her counsel Malik Javaid Iqbal disputed the claim contending that his client has nothing to do with the murder.

The prosecutor contended that the court could not hear the application after addition of terrorism charges against the model in the murder case.

Ayyan’s counsel alleged that the interior minister had ordered the police to include terrorism charges against the model. He said that the police were not recording her statement despite her readiness to record the same in the light of the Supreme Court order.



Investigation officer Inspector Manzar Abbas told the court that the case has now been transferred to the Counter-Terrorism Department from the police after inclusion of terrorism charges against the model.

The magistrate noted that the model needed to approach a relevant forum (anti-terrorism court) for redressal of her grievances as the court was not competent to take up terrorism charges.



Saima Bibi, the wife of Ejaz, had moved an application in the court alleging that her husband was the main prosecution witnesses against Ayyan in the currency smuggling case.

Saima had also alleged that the model got her husband killed. However, the model had denied the charge.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 2^nd, 2016.