Police said that proof recommended Umar Farooq Zahoor was not secluded from everything when he recorded a FIR at Islamabad police headquarters
Sunday, March 03, 2024
LONDON/ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Police has said that it didn't track down grounds to name finance manager Umar Farooq Zahoor as an absconder, following a broad examination.
In an explanation the police said that the proof proposed Mr Zahoor was not sequestered from everything when he documented a FIR at the Secretariat Police headquarters, Islamabad, against his previous spouse Sophia Mirza (Khush Bakht Mirza), Shehzad Akbar and others.
The Islamabad Police expressed: "Reports in the media surfaced that during the enlistment of the FIR, Umar Zahoor Farooq was an absconder Upon examination, it was uncovered that Umar Farooq Zahoor was not an absconder around then, nor as of now. A body of evidence was documented against Umar Farooq Zahoor in the FIA, for which warrants were given. Those warrants were challanged by Umar Farooq Zahoor in the significant court, whereupon the court suspended the warrants.
"During the examination upon the court request, it was uncovered that the FIA gave no red warrants. It was found during the examination that a few authorities of the FIA and Khush Bakht Mirza arranged counterfeit red warrants. Upon this, Umar Farooq Zahoor presented an application in PS Secretariat for the enlistment of the case whereupon a case number 465 was enrolled. Since the examination of this case was outside the purview of the police, the police excused the case and alluded the make a difference to the FIA. After the excusal of the cases, Umar Farooq Zahoor again applied for the enrollment of the case. Whereupon, a case number 156 was enlisted in the Secretariat police headquarters in regards to misrepresentation and coercion."
It justifies referencing here that the Islamabad High Court (IHC) last invalidated the FIRs documented by finance manager Umar Farooq Zahoor against Sophia Mirza, crediting liability to the In control Cop at Secretariat, Islamabad, for unapproved FIR enlistments.
Legal counselors of Umar Farooq Zahoor said the reports of the media asserting that Umar Farooq Zahoor was Absconder at the hour of enrollment of FIRs against Ms Khushbakht Mirza and others is against current realities.
The attorneys said: "The Government Examination Organization (FIA) got warrants given against Umar Farooq Zahoor in FIR No. 343/20 at his back and without making him a player in examination. Mr Umar Farooq Zahoor, after finding out about the said warrants, tested a similar under the watchful eye of the Extra Meeting Judge Lahore. The Took in Extra Meeting Judge vide Request dated 29.03.2021 was satisfied to save the warrants being unlawful and unlawful. The FIA tested the expressed requests before the Noteworthy Lahore High Court in Crl. Misc. 25423 of 2021. The Good Court excused the aforementioned Appeal vide its Organization dated 08.09.2022 while holding that the warrants have been given unlawfully and without satisfying the necessities of regulation.
"From that point, the Government Examination Organization gave Red Warrants against Mr. Umar Farooq Zahoor based on implied warrants gave in the FIRs No. 36/2020 and 40/2020. To determine the specific realities and to challenge such warrants in Official courtroom, Mr. Umar Farooq Zahoor moved toward the Learned Legal Justice and documented an Application for gathering of Report/Record of the previously mentioned FIRs. It uncovered from the Report/Record put together by FIA that no warrants have been given against any of the denounced people in the previously mentioned FIRs. The Learned Legal Judge discarded the Application vide Request dated 04.06.2022 with the perception that no warrants have been given against Mr. Umar Farooq Zahoor and any of the other charged in the previously mentioned FIRs."
The attorneys said: "Mr. Umar Farooq Zahoor was absolved from the FIRs No. 36/20 and 40/20 by the Learned Legal Justice vide Orders dated 29.04.2023 and 11.05.2023 separately. After exoneration from the previously mentioned FIRs, Mr. Umar Farooq Zahoor presented a new application through messenger to Police headquarters Secretariat Islamabad and as needs be a FIR No. 156/2023 was enlisted against Ms. Khushbakht Mirza and others for misrepresentation and blackmail of cash. It turns out to be completely clear from the previously mentioned realities and record annexed herewith that Mr. Umar Farooq Zahoor was not absconder in that frame of mind at the hour of enrollment of FIRs No. 465/22 or 156/23 at Police headquarters Secretariat Islamabad.
"It is additionally matter of record that Ms. Khushbakht Mirza was herself pronounced absconder by Scholarly Legal Justice vide request dated 26.09.2023 while she continued to show up under the watchful eye of the Good Court though it is a settled regulation that absconder can't be concurred chance of hearing. It is likewise settled regulation that the FIR can't be subdued in the cases wherein commission of offense is laid out from the substance of FIR. Dependence is put on 2021 SCMR 1486 wherein it has been held that on the off chance that an offense has been committed by all appearances, conventional course of preliminary under the steady gaze of Preliminary Court ought not be permitted to be crushed by falling back on subduing of FIR in the Established purview of High Court."
