ATC admits Ayyan’s plea in investigator’s murder case

Rawalpindi

The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC), Rawalpindi, Judge, Malik Majeed Awan, on Monday admitted for hearing  supermodel Ayyan Ali's  petition  regarding Customs Inspector Chaudhry Ejaz's murder. She said in her plea that she had nothing to do with the murder of the Custom officer in this regard.

Ayyan Ali appeared before the Rawalpindi ATC on Monday, and the  court ordered police for recording her statement in Custom officer murder case till September 23.   

She denied all allegations against her. She said that she was in jail when the Custom officer was killed. I am innocent in murder case, she claimed.  

The court adjourned further hearing in the case till September 23, 2016.

According to details, Saima Ijaz, the wife of slain Customs Sub Inspector, Chaudhry Ijaz, had filed a petition with the sessions court pertaining to supermodel Ayyan’s currency smuggling case. The proceeding was held in the court of District and Sessions Judge Khalid Naveed Dar.

The petition stated that Chaudhry Ijaz was killed while Ayyan’s money laundering and currency smuggling case was going on. The slain Customs officer’s wife also alleged that the police had not recorded her statement even though one year had elapsed since the murder of her husband but no progress had been made regarding the murder of her husband. 

Chaudhry Ijaz was the investigating officer, who was probing supermodel Ayyan after she had been charged with currency smuggling and money laundering. 

Sub Inspector Chaudhry Ijaz was shot dead by unknown armed assailants outside his house in Qasimabad. He was rushed to the Benazir Bhutto Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.