Attempted abduction: Imran Nazir granted interim bail

Cricketer says complainant filed a fake case to defame him.

LAHORE:

An additional district and sessions judge on Saturday granted an interim pre-arrest bail to cricketer Imran Nazir for June 22 in a case allegeing an attempt to kidnap and directed him to submit surety bonds for Rs50,000 within two days.

The judge also issued notices police and the complainant to file their comments by June 22. Nazir on Saturday filed a petition for a pre-arrest bail in Shahida Saeed’s court.

He said that the complainant, Sohail Shakir, had filed a false case against him. He said the apparent motive was to defame him.  He also told the court that he was ready to appear before an investigation officer if required. He said that he had not previously known Shakir and had never met him.  He asked the court to grant him pre-arrest bail till the final decision of the case.

The judge summoned the police and granted an interim pre-arrest bail to Nazir.

According to the FIR registered by the Lytton Road police, three men had stopped Shakir’s car on Mozang Road on June 8 and pulled him out of it. He said the men fled when they saw some traffic wardens approaching.

A few minutes later, he said, he was stopped again by the same men, who again tried to abduct him. One of them, he said, was Nazir.



Published in The Express Tribune, June 12th, 2011.