LAHORE: A man convicted in the 2015 Kasur video scandal has filed an appeal before the Lahore High Court challenging his 10-year sentence in the three cases registered against him.
Haseem Aamir, the convict, filed the appeal through his lawyer, Abid Khichi, arguing that the trial court had awarded him a 10-year sentence contrary to the facts and that the court did not properly evaluate the evidence. He asked the LHC to annul the sentence and allow the appeal.
Three FIRs were registered against Haseem. He was acquitted in one case in 2023, while another case was referred to the trial court for rehearing by the LHC.
Kasur’s Ganda Singhwala police had registered at least 29 FIRs against dozens of suspects accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting around 280 children from the same district.
Prosecutors accused the defendants of sexually assaulting young boys and filming the incidents to blackmail them.
The trial court later acquitted several accused for lack of evidence.
PUNJAB COLLEGE: An anti-terrorism court has extended the judicial remand of a woman TikToker who claimed to be the mother of the alleged ‘rape victim’ of Punjab College.
The Gulberg police produced the suspect, Sara Khan, before the court at the end of her 14-day judicial remand.
The investigating officer stated before the court that one out of every two mobile phones of the suspect had been recovered in Multan. He said the chargesheet was in its final stage and would be filed soon.
ATC-I Judge Manzer Ali Gill extended the suspect’s judicial remand till January 10 and directed the police to ensure presentation of the challan in the next hearing.
Police alleged that the suspect recorded a video, claiming to be the mother of an alleged rape victim, and uploaded it to her TikTok account. He said the video went viral and added to the controversy over the alleged rape case.
The suspect, a resident of Karachi with a permanent address in Multan, had been charged with making a false statement, inciting public sentiment against government authorities and urging people to violence.
Published in Dawn, January 3, 2025
