ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad sessions court has awarded life-time imprisonment to Usman Mirza and four others for sexually harassing, torturing, and filming a young couple in Islamabad’s E-11.
Additional Sessions Judge Atta Rabbani announced the verdict today. Four other men, Hafiz Attaur Rehman, Qayyum Butt, Mohib Bangash, Farhan Shaheen, have also been sentenced for life while Umar Bilal and Rehan have been acquitted.
The seven men accused of sexually harassing, torturing, and filming the couple were indicted September last year.
The trial which lasted almost seven months made headlines because of Mirza’s influential background. People were apprehensive that accused will walk free and the couple will be pressurized to withdraw the case.
The police charged Mirza with the offences of rape, extortion, wrongful confinement, dacoity and sexual abuse.
The case
A car business owner in Islamabad, Usman Mirza, was arrested after a video surfaced on the internet showing him harassing and torturing a young couple at an apartment in E-11.
Mirza and his accomplices were arrested during police raids in Rawalpindi and Rawalpindi in the following days.
Investigations revealed that Mirza had been blackmailing the couple and extorted money from them. He was said to have received millions of rupees from the young man and woman, who are now married.
