LAHORE: A National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) official on Tuesday informed a sessions court that PML-N MPA Saqib Chadhar had been found guilty of harassing actor Momina Iqbal after investigation.
NCCIA-Lahore Station House Officer (SHO) Najam Bajwa shared this as Additional District and Sessions Judge Nusrat Ali Siddiqui Malik took up pre-arrest bail petitions of the MPA and his wife, who was also named in the first information report registered after Iqbal’s harassment allegations.
Chadhar and his wife appeared before the court upon the expiry of their previous pre-arrest interim bail.
During the hearing, SHO Bajwa informed the court that the investigation against Chadhar had been completed and he had been found guilty of the allegations levelled by Iqbal.
He further told the court that Chadhar’s wife had surrendered her mobile phone to NCCIA two days ago and the device had been sent for forensic examination.
Advocate Adnan Ahsan, the counsel for Iqbal, urged the court to dismiss the suspects’ bail pleas, arguing that their release on bail posed a threat to his client.
The judge adjourned the hearing after extending Chadhar and his wife’s bail till Sept 3, directing that both sides present their final arguments at the next hearing.
Chadhar and his wife had secured pre-arrest bail in the case on June 5, a day after NCCIA registered a case against them. Their bail has been extended multiple times.
The NCCIA had registered the case on Iqbal’s complaint under Sections 3 (unauthorised access to information system or data), 4 (unauthorised copying or transmission of data), 21 (offences against modesty of a natural person and minor) and 24 (cyber stalking) of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, read with Sections 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 109 (punishment for abetment if the act abetted is committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Published in Dawn, July 29th, 2026