3 PPC sections added to FIR against Shumaila

LAHORE - Ghalib Market police Monday added another three PPC sections to the FIR registered against PML-N MPA Shumaila Rana on the request of the complainant, Zaira Malik. Police sources said the three PPC sections 420,468 and 471 were added to the case of MPA Shumaila Rana for committing fraud and cheating the complainant woman. Earlier, the case was registered against the accused MPA only under section 379 of PPC. The police investigators found fake signatures of the MPA on the receipt she received from a jewellery shop after purchasing jewellery on the stolen credit cards, the sources said. The sources further added the accused MPA did not join investigation despite lapse of three days. The police investigators asked the MPA to reach police station and submit her statement in her defence but to no avail. A police officer told this scribe seeking anonymity that the accused MPA was asked to join the investigations but neither she contacted the police nor gave any information about her inability to join the investigations. To a question about her bail from a local court, the police officer said the accused had provided no documents to the police in this regard. He said the competent authorities had barred the police from arresting the accused 'until further orders. When contacted, Incharge Investigation Ghalib Market police station, Inspector Imran Khan said that efforts were being made to contact Shumaila Rana to get her statement as without her version the police could not proceed with the investigations. He, however, denied the reports about reconciliation efforts between both the parties saying that addition of new PPC sections in the FIR was a clear signal that the police were going ahead to take legal action against the accused MPA.

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