LAHORE, 28 JULY (DNA) — A National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) official on Tuesday informed a sessions court that PML-N MPA Saqib Chadhar had been found guilty of harassing actor Momina Iqbal after investigation. NCCIA Lahore Station House Officer (SHO) Najam Bajwa shared this as Additional District and Sessions Judge Nusrat Ali Siddiqui took up pre-arrest bail petitions of the MPA and his wife, who was also named in the first information report registered after Iqbal’s harassment allegations.
Chadhar and his wife appeared before the court upon the expiry of their previous pre-arrest interim bail. During the hearing, SHO Najam Bajwa informed the court that the investigation against Chadhar had been completed and he had been found guilty of the allegations levelled by Iqbal.
He further told the court that Chadhar’s wife had surrendered her mobile phone to NCCIA two days ago and the device had been sent for forensic examination. For his part, the counsel for Iqbal urged the court to dismiss the suspects’ bail pleas, arguing that their release on bail posed a threat to his client.
The judge adjourned the hearing after extending Chadhar and his wife’s bail till September 3, directing that both sides present their final arguments at the next hearing. Chadhar and his wife had secured pre-arrest bail in the case on June 5, a day after NCCIA registered a case against them. Their bail has been extended multiple times since. — DNA
