Usman Mirza’s accomplices deserve no leniency: IHC

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has directed the trial court to also initiate legal proceedings against three accomplices of Usman Mirza, who have already been charge-sheeted for harassing, torturing and blackmailing a boy and a girl in Sector E-11.

While issuing a detailed verdict on the bail pleas of Farhan Shaheen, Hafiz Ata-ur-Rehman, and Mohammad Adaras, the IHC judge observed the three accused should be harangued for attempting to drag the case by putting up petitions in the high court.

Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani issued a six-page verdict on the dismissal of bail petitions of three suspects in the couple's harassment case.

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The court said three suspects have been named in the FIR and their offence was proved through forensic. The verdict read the suspects’ names cannot be excluded from the case as they were present at the crime scene.

The verdict said that the court was overseeing the role of the applicants at this point and rejected the petitions of an act whose fear directly affects society.

Justice Kayani said the suspects cannot get leverage of late registration of the FIR neither it required any further inquiry.

He said that another suspect in the case, Umar Bilal, had been given bail as he was a student and was out of the apartment where the incident happened.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 3^rd, 2021.