July 30, 2021: A district and sessions court has rejected bail plea following the arrest of an associate in the Usman Mirza sexual abuse video case.

Mirza’s colleague Omar Bilal’s bail plea after arrest was presided over by District and Sessions Judge Maghribi Ata Rabbani, on Thursday. Lawyer Hassan Javed Shorash appeared in court on behalf of the couple.

Defendant’s lawyer argued that his client was a student of Physiotherapy at Shifa International and had never met Usman Mirza in person. He added that Bilal was a friend of Usman Mirza’s brother.

The lawyer stated that Bilal’s location was different from the crime scene where Usman Mirza recorded the video and that he was not named in the First Information Report (FIR). He added that Bilal was present at his house at the time of the incident while the female victim did not make any statement against him.

He further said that the police have accused the suspect of receiving extortion after obtaining physical remand.

The accused’s lawyer further said that the police were trying to prolong the case and for this purpose, they had targeted his client as a robber, extortionist and abuser. The lawyer argued that Bilal first opened a bank account in 2016 and did not have more than a few thousand rupees in his account.

Furthermore, the public prosecutor told the court that Mirza had mentioned the petitioner’s name in three statements and that he was present at the trial.

He added that the police registered a case against the accused on July 9 and completed the identification parade during which the male victim identified Bilal as a door guard during the incident perpetrated by Mirza, in his statement to the magistrate.

The prosecutor further said that they recovered Rs100,000 in the case on the identification of the suspect too, adding that the suspect did not come inside the room, therefore, he was not visible in the video being recorded by Usman Mirza.

The victim said nine to 10 people entered the apartment being used by Usman Mirza using duplicate keys and went to the washroom.

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