A session court has extended the interim pre-arrest bail of PML-N MPA Saqib Chadhar and his wife until July 28 in connection with allegations of harassment against television actress Momina Iqbal. The extension was granted during a hearing where Chadhar appeared with his legal counsel, while his wife was absent.
The investigating officer from the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) requested additional time to complete the ongoing investigation. In response, Additional District and Sessions Judge Nusrat Ali Siddiqi ordered the bail extension and instructed the officer to present a progress report at the next hearing.
The case was registered last month after Momina Iqbal filed a complaint accusing the Punjab lawmaker and his wife of cyber harassment. The FIR cites multiple sections of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), including unauthorized access to information systems, unauthorized data transmission, offenses against modesty, and cyber stalking.
Additionally, the FIR invokes several provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code, such as criminal intimidation, destruction or concealment of evidence, acts done in furtherance of common intention, and abetment.
the complaint, Chadhar, his wife, and their associates allegedly engaged in a campaign of cyber harassment, stalking, criminal intimidation, blackmail, defamation, unlawful surveillance, and threats targeting Iqbal and her family. The actress claimed that after she rejected Chadhar’s marriage proposal upon discovering he was already married, he retaliated with threats, attempts to access her private data, sending violent content, and blackmail involving her private videos.
The FIR further alleges that the accused defamed Iqbal socially and professionally, sabotaged her 2023 marriage proposal by spreading false information, and recently escalated threats to leak private material, harm her and her fiancé, and disrupt her upcoming marriage plans.
