{"id":30874,"date":"2024-03-27T19:12:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=30874"},"modified":"2024-03-27T19:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:18:06","slug":"sc-restrains-fia-from-arrests-of-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sc-restrains-fia-from-arrests-of-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"SC restrains FIA from arresting of journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to refrain from arresting journalists until the next hearing of the case, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice of Pakistan questioned, &#8220;Is this a violation of the law?&#8221; He clarified that the notice issued fell under Section 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code, serving as a precursor to the registration of an FIR. &#8220;There&#8217;s a possibility that such a notice may be issued to me tomorrow; there&#8217;s no guarantee that an FIR will be registered. Sometimes, under pressure from above, an officer may issue a notice but refrain from registering an FIR or making an arrest. Such notices can also be used to summon someone as a witness,&#8221; the CJP elaborated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can only declare something illegal if it&#8217;s shown to us as such; we won&#8217;t deem a legal act as null and void,&#8221; the Chief Justice emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Barrister Salahuddin stressed the necessity of providing complete details of the case with the notice. &#8220;I should be informed of the reasons if I am being summoned to the police station,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/massive-tax-fraud-fia-arrests-private-company-owner-son\/\">Massive Tax fraud: FIA arrests private company owner &amp; son<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Chief Justice pointed out that according to Barrister Salahuddin&#8217;s argument, the FIR must be mandatory before summons. He also mentioned that officers might call for verification of facts before registering an FIR.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan noted that typically, the registration of the FIR precedes any summons. &#8220;Do you prefer a notice under Section 157 instead of Section 160?&#8221; he inquired.<\/p>\n<p>Barrister Salahuddin responded, &#8220;The notice can be served after the FIR is registered.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to refrain from arresting journalists until the next hearing of the case, on Wednesday. Chief Justice of Pakistan questioned, &#8220;Is this a violation of the law?&#8221; He clarified that the notice issued fell under Section 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code, serving as a precursor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1649,849,1633,1200,296,13942],"class_list":["post-30874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-chief-justice-of-pakistan","tag-federal-investigation-agency","tag-fir","tag-supreme-court","tag-fia","tag-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}