MIRPUR: The district police have arrested the son of a former chief justice of the AJK Supreme Court, Chaudhry Ibrahim Zia, for allegedly harassing a female doctor for the past two years in Muzaffarabad.
The arrest of the suspect, Arsalan Zia, who is a BS-17 ad-hoc employee in the Information Technology section of the AJK high court, was made on the complaint of the victim’s father, who is an advocate.
According to a private newspaper, the complainant alleged that in December 2018, his daughter noticed that the suspect would covertly take pictures of female students from the roof of the hostel.
“After some time, my daughter started receiving calls and messages from different numbers by the suspect who would ask her to maintain relations with him,” he alleged.
The victim’s father further claimed that on her refusal, the suspect started threatening her while boasting about the position of his father — then the serving chief justice.
He also said, since the suspect worked in the IT section, the suspect had also hacked his daughter’s social media accounts and copied her pictures and personal information to blackmail her.
“At least twice, he tried to bundle my daughter in an official vehicle — once in Muzaffarabad and the next time in Rawalpindi — but failed after she raised a hue and cry,” he said.
The suspect had been in Mirpur for the past few days but on Monday, he arrived at the hospital and threatened the woman in the presence of a senior doctor if she did not accompany him to contract marriage.
“My daughter is in a state of shock and depression. I want strict legal action not only against this guy who is her known tormentor but also his hidden colleagues,” he concluded.
After registering a first information report under sections 489H, 489 ZXD, 501(2) of Penal Code and section 11 of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Act, Mirpur Police took the suspect into custody.
