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ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad sessions court discarded a plea calling for the registration of a criminal case against Mansoor Ijaz, the central character in the memogate scandal, DawnNews reported.
The petition was filed by Pakistan People's Party (PPP) activist Khalid Javed.
Earlier, Raja Israr Ahmed Abbasi, the petitioner's counsel, had stated in the court that Ijaz was “a secret agent of an anti-Pakistan lobby trying to defame patriotic forces and to destabilise the democratic government by publishing fake and baseless memo-related documents”.
In addition to the so-called memo, the other documents including statements, articles and analyses published in the international media by Ijaz were sufficient to charge him with the offences mentioned in sections 153-A, 177, 197, 199, 200, 468, 471 and 505 of the Pakistani Penal Code (PPC) that related to making false statements and false declarations presenting forged documents and inciting people against the government or its organs.
During today's hearing, additional sessions judge Islamabad Syed Wajahat Hassan issued a short order on the petition and discarded it.
