KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Monday issued notices to the FIA’s investigating officer and prosecutor on an application seeking grant of bail to Dania Shah, the widow of media personality and politician Aamir Liaquat Hussain, detained in a case pertaining to allegedly leaking his indecent video on social media.

Judicial Magistrate (East) Mukesh Kumar told the IO and prosecutor to submit their replies to the bail plea till Dec 20 and adjourned the hearing.

On Saturday, a judicial magistrate had remanded Ms Shah in judicial custody till Dec 19 after the FIA produced her before the court following her arrest from her house in Lodhran district of Punjab the day before.

On Monday, she moved an application seeking grant of post-arrest bail, submitting that neither she had any account on the YouTube or any other video-sharing social media website nor had she uploaded and disseminated the alleged obscene videos of her on the internet recorded with her late husband.

Ms Shah alleged she could not imagine defaming or humiliating late Aamir Liaquat being his wife, but she had been made a scapegoat in a false case under a preplanned conspiracy when she asked for her share in the inheritance.

She further alleged that Mr Hussain’s first wife Bushra had extended threats to implicate her in false cases to pressurise her to not claim any share in the assets left behind by her husband.

Dua Aamir, daughter of the late TV anchor, had lodged an FIR against her under Sections 20 (malicious code), 21 (cyberstalking) and 24 (legal recognition of offences committed in relation to information system) of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016.

Published in Dawn, December 20th, 2022