A District Court and sessions in Islamabad issued up -to -racible arrest orders for YouTuber Imran Riaz Khan and two officials of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa anti -corruption agency, it emerged on Saturday.
Arrest orders, issued by Judicial Magistrate Abbas Shah yesterday and available with Dawn.comThey were issued for Khan, head of the Sadeeq Anjam Anti -Corruption Directorate and an advisor to the KP principal minister about the Musaddiq Abbasi anti -corruption, about his alleged participation in a social networks campaign against Islamabad Humayun Dilawar judge.
Dilawar was the judge who condemned the founder of PTI and former prime minister Imran Khan in the case of Toshakhana in 2023 and sentenced him to three years in prison.
The three arrest orders were issued by virtue of sections 20 (crimes against the dignity of a natural person), 24 (cyberbully) of the Electronic Crime Prevention Law, 2016 and sections 34 (acts performed by several people in common intention), 109 (answer punishment if the act is committed accordingly and when no express provision is provided to matification) (punishment for criminal intimidation if the threat must cause death or damage seriously, etc.) of the Pakistan Criminal Code.
There was no date on which the three men had to occur before the court.
A previous day, the Superior Court of Islamabad (IHC) dismissed a petition that sought to cancel a case of cybercrime registered against a petitioner accused of administering the campaign.
Judge Raja Inaam Ameen Minhas, in a detailed sentence, ruled that the first information report (FIR) could not be annulled at this stage since a Challan had already been submitted to the Court of First Instance. He also noted that partially canceling a FIR to the point of a suspect, while others remained nominated, was a legal impossibility.
Last September, a judicial magistrate in Bannu of KP issued arrest orders for Judge Dilawar at the request of the Anti -Corruption Establishment, who was investigating the alleged participation of the family of the Magistrate of Islamabad in a graft case.
