On Wednesday, court dismissed a petition of US blogger, film maker and social media enthusiast Cynthia D. Ritchie who took action to report a rape case against Senator Rehman Malik.
This happened when a police report declared it as a baseless complaint.
Police reported that Ms Ritchie had neither given any evidence to validate the allegation of rape in 2011 nor had she placed any material on record to show that she had been harassed. Additional district and sessions judge Nasir Javed Rana heard Ms Ritchie’s petition. Her counsel, Imran Feroz Malik, argued that the police had refused to register an FIR against Mr Malik on her complaint.
She filed an application with the Secretariat police station on June 17. In that application Ms Ritchie accused Mr Malik of raping her at his residence in 2011. She also stated that the former interior minister in connivance with former premier Yousuf Raza Gillani had employed the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) media cell to intimidate, threaten, harass and defame the US citizen on social media.
The court later ordered the police to submit a report regarding the matter.
As per ordered by the court police submitted their report stating that Ms Richie had not filed any complaint with the Secretariat Police Station regarding her rape allegations back in 2011.
