Suspect in judge video scandal missing, police register FIR – Pakistan

A case was recorded on Wednesday after a suspect in the investigation of a video leak scandal involving former judge of the court of responsibility Arshad Malik disappeared along with his family.

According to the FIR registered at the Lohi Bher police station in Islamabad for the complaint of the brother-in-law of Khurram Yousuf under Section 365 (kidnapping or kidnapping with the secret and erroneous intention to confine a person) of the Criminal Code of Pakistan, Yousuf , along with his wife and three children, were missing for a week. He said his house was closed and the phones had been turned off.

The plaintiff alleged that Nasir Janjua, another suspect in the video scandal, was responsible for this, adding that his brother-in-law was very concerned about the case and had been in contact with Janjua. He called his recovery.

On September 7, a judicial magistrate had released three suspects, including Janjua, Yousuf and Mahar Ghulam Jilani, from the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) after an agency report showed no evidence was found in against him in connection with an investigation into the video leak scandal.

Earlier in the same week, the three men had been arrested in connection with Judge Malik's FIR against them for allegedly pressuring and blackmailing him.

After his release, a cybercrime court ruled that the order to exonerate the case "does not amount to absolution."

Judge video controversy

Judge Malik, who in December of last year sentenced Nawaz Sharif to seven years in jail in the corruption reference of Al-Azizia Steel Mills and acquitted him in the case of Flagship Investment, has been at the center of the controversy since the July 6, when PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz alleged that he had been "blackmailed" to give the verdict against Sharif.

According to Judge Malik's affidavit, presented to the president of the Islamabad High Court of Justice as a rebuttal to Maryam's press conference, an old acquaintance of his, Tariq Mahmood, had been the one who showed him a "manipulated immoral video recorded in secret [showing him] in a compromising position "he was shot while the judge served in Multan.

The judge claimed that this video was later used by Nasir Butt, the former defender of Sharif, to blackmail him.