Pakistan cricket team captain Babar Azam has found himself in big trouble after an additional and sessions court in Lahore, on Thursday (January 14), ordered the police to register an FIR and file a case against him on a sexual exploitation complaint by Hamiza Mukhtar.
Hamiza filed multiple petitions in court, alleging Babar had been abusing her sexually on the pretext of marriage and she even got pregnant in 2015, but the Pakistan captain, in connivance with his friends, forced her to abort their child.
In her petition, she had claimed they became friends when they were studying at Ali Education System, and later were in illicit relations as he promised to marry her, but after Azam was selected in the national team, he refused to marry her.
Lahore-based Mukhtar approached the court after the Lahore CCPO failed to register her complaint against the Pakistan captain, complaining that Azam had sexually exploited her, forced her to have an abortion, and made false promises of marriage.
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On Thursday, the court has ordered the police to record Hamiza’s statement under section 154 Code of Criminal Procedure and “proceed strictly in accordance with the law” with the petitioner annexing her medical documents as evidence of fraud and sexual harassment against the star cricketer.
After hearing arguments of the lawyers of both sides, the additional sessions judge, Noman Muhammad Naeem directed the SHO of Naseerabad police station to immediately register the FIR against Babar on serious allegations of abortion and deceitful intercourse on the false assurance of marriage. The court described the allegations as disturbing and serious to warrant a full investigation.
The judge ordered the petitioner to approach the SHO Police Station Naseerabad, Lahore along with the copy of the court’s order and supporting documents. The order read: “From bare readings of the application of petitioner, prima facie, omission of cognizable offense is made out.”
Later, Hamiza also confirmed that the FIR has been lodged at the Naseerabad police station.
Noteworthy, other additional sessions judge Abid Raza had in the past ordered Babar and his family not to harass Hamiza as she had alleged getting threat calls to withdraw the case.
She also alleged that when tried to register an FIR against Babar at the Naseerabad Police Station, he forced her to withdraw the application on re-assurance of marriage.
(With PTI Inputs)
