IHC quashes sentence of ASI

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday quashed the sentence of an official of the Capital Police in a case pertaining to passing classified information to a foreign diplomat.

Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani accepted an appeal against the sentence of Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Zahoor. Advocate Imran Feroz and other lawyers appeared in the court on behalf of the petitioner.

The court completed the hearing and issued a verbal order to accept the appeal. The written decision will be issued later. A case had been registered against Zahoor on December 13, 2021. A Special Court had sentenced him to three years in prison on May 18, 2024 under the Official Secrets Act.

The IHC ruled that threat alert reports of the Nacta and the Ministry of Interior could not be called classified information or confidential documents.