Diatribe against judiciary: Police register case against Nehal Hashmi

Clauses 189, 228 and 505 of PPC included in the FIR; official says police forming team to arrest accused

KARACHI: The police on Sunday registered a case against the PML-N’s former senator Nehal Hashmi for allegedly issuing threats to judiciary.

According to an official, the FIR No112/2017 was registered on the complaint of Khushnud Javed, SHO of Karachi’s Bahadurabad police station. Clauses 189, 228 and 505 of PPC have been included in the FIR.

“A case has been registered against Hashmi and a team is being formed to arrest the accused,” the SP Gulshan-e-Iqbal Ghulam Murtaza told The Express Tribune.



Nehal Hashmi had to quit his Senate seat after a video went viral on May 31 showing his diatribe against ‘those investigating’ Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family.

Hashmi’s threatening speech at an event in Karachi on May 28 drew instant reaction from the Supreme Court, with Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar taking suo motu notice and summoning the PML-N leader to appear in person before the implementation bench supervising the work of the Panamgate JIT.

“You are on duty today. Remember, you will be retiring tomorrow. We will make your life and [those of] your family members miserable in Pakistan,” Hashmi was seen telling an audience invisible in the short video clip.



Even though Hashmi claimed that his speech was not against the judiciary or any member of the JIT, in the prevailing scenario where the ruling party’s many other leaders can be seen visibly perturbed over the accountability of their top leadership, Hashmi’s retraction does not seem genuine.

The PM Office in a statement later in the afternoon said the premier had taken notice of the video.

Asif Kirmani, political assistant to the Prime Minister, in a brief statement said: “Hashmi has been served a show-cause notice and his party membership is being suspended. He has been asked to tender resignation as party’s senator.”



A notice was also issued to the Attorney General for Pakistan.

The Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) Ashtar Ausaf was asked to take further action against him and to file a report in the Supreme Court. The AGP wrote to Sindh government to take legal action against Hashmi. Later, Sindh Advocate General Zameer Ghumro wrote to SHO Bahadurabad to register the case.