recorder report

ISLAMABAD: A close aide of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Irfan Siddiqui, Monday approached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for quashment of an FIR registered against him for not informing the relevant police station about particulars of his ‘tenant.’

He moved the court through his counsel and cited station house officer (SHO) Ramna Police Station, ASI Sagheer Ahmed, district magistrate and assistant commissioner as respondents.

He stated in his petition that the concerned SHO and the ASI with the “connivance” of district magistrate and the AC registered a false, frivolous and baseless FIR under section 188 PPC against him just to defame, scandalise and victimise the petitioner while they publicly handcuffed him at the time of arrest in a derogatory manner.

He added that the registration of case against the petitioner and entire subsequent proceedings, on the face of it, are textbook example of ‘colourable’ exercise of jurisdiction on the part of government functionaries.

Irfan contended that the allegation against him in the FIR is that he rented out his house in violation of order of district magistrate Islamabad whereas the petitioner is neither owner nor landlord of the said house which is exclusively owned by his son Imran Khawar.

He alleged that “the respondents at the behest of influential political figures, who are in power with intention to crush and victimise their opponents on purely political considerations, used clout and abused their authority as device for dragging them in frivolous cases.”

The petitioner maintained that the act of respondents is “illegal, unauthorised and is result of mala fide and criminal machinery is being used as a device” to victimise him.

Therefore, he prayed that his petition may be accepted and the said FIR registered under section 188 PPC may graciously be quashed. He also requested that till the final disposal of petition, operation of the impugned FIR or any proceedings surfaced from the same may be suspended.