IG put on notice in abduction of TikToker’s husband

KARACHI:

Sindh High Court (SHC) put IG Sindh and others on notice in a petition for the safe recovery TikTok star Hareem Shah’s husband Bilal Shah.

SHC issued notices to interior ministry, IG Sindh and others and summoned a response from them against the abduction of Hareem Shah’s husband. The father of Bilal Shah said that his son was abducted from Korangi Road on August 26.

He said that there is no case registered against Bilal Shah and he returned to Pakistan one week ago. Yesterday, Police registered an FIR against the abduction of Tiktoker Hareem Shah’s husband’s case. As per details, the Police officials stated that the FIR was registered in Defense police station on the complaint of his mother.

The police officials said that the husband of Hareem Shah, Bilal Hussain Shah was abducted on August 27. On January 28, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) asked multiple banks to freeze accounts of TikToker Hareem Shah after she was filmed in a video with a huge cache of foreign exchange.

The FIA had written letters to Punjab Bank and Habib Bank for freezing the bank accounts of Tiktok star after she mocked the Pakistani authorities for letting her travel abroad with the bundles of foreign currency.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 5^th, 2023.