Former interior minister Rehman Malik on Monday moved the Supreme Court (SC), requesting to set aside the order passed by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) allowing the writ petition of US blogger Cynthia D Ritchie.
The IHC had earlier this month referred the matter of registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against Rehman Malik in a rape case to the Justice of Peace for review.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Nasir Javed Rana had dismissed a petition filed by the American national under sections 22-A and 22-B of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (CrPC).
Urging the apex court to grant leave to appeal under Article 185(3) of the Constitution against the impugned order of IHC dated September 1, 2020, allowing the writ petition of US blogger, Malik also requested the court to set the impugned order and restore the order passed by the Justice of Peace.
The PPP leader submitted that the allegations levelled by the respondent were incomplete and thus this does not make out a case for rape, as the necessary ingredients to constitute the offence of rape were absolutely missing from the complaint.
The former minister maintained that the IHC failed to consider that the complaint was lodged after a long and inordinate delay after an elapse of more than nine years and how veracity and sanctity can be attached to the same, especially when the same was lodged after the petitioner took suo moto notice of her allegations leveled against former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
