"I have not taken money from anyone,” says the female victim
ISLAMABAD: The victim of the Islamabad couple harassment case, who had earlier retracted her statement and submitted an affidavit refusing to pursue the matter, told the court on Wednesday that she was pressurized to pursue the matter. was going.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Atta Rabbani resumed the hearing of the Islamabad couple harassment case today.
At the start of today's hearing, the victim reiterated her statement: "I have already said that I do not know any of the suspects. Whatever statement I had to record, I have recorded. Why am I being pressurised? "
He urged the court to grant him permanent exemption from the case.
Meanwhile, cross-examining the victim, one of the suspects in the case, Umar Bilal's lawyer, urged the court to play a certain part of the purported video.
Accepting his request, the court ordered the journalists and other irrelevant people to come out of the courtroom for a few minutes and play the video. After some time the doors of the court room opened again.
Umar Bilal's lawyer asked the victim whether she had received Rs 1 lakh from her client for recording her statement in the court.
The girl replied: "I have not taken money from anyone."
"I have already said that the police have obtained my signatures on blank papers," he said.
Responding to a question about the date of her marriage, the victim replied that she did not remember the exact date, adding that she tied the knot after the video went viral.
The victim said that she never met IG Islamabad or any other police officer.
To this, the suspect's lawyer said that the girl has confessed to lying before the court, and urged the judge to put the couple's names on the no-fly list.
Earlier, the police had produced the prime suspect in the harassment case, Usman Mirza and others in the court. After appearance the suspects were shifted to "Bakshi Khana".
Prosecutor Rana Hasan Abbas cross-examined the aggrieved man and asked him about his job.
He said that he was involved in the real estate business when this incident happened but these days he was unemployed. He said that when the proceedings of the case started, he left the business.
When the prosecutor asked him to give details of the incident, the aggrieved man said that he could not give details yet.