Fraud case registered against PTI's Ali Zaidi

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh president Ali Haider Zaidi was arrested after a case was registered against him at Ibrahim Hyderi police station on charges of ‘fraud’, ARY News reported on Saturday.

According to details, the first information report (FIR) was registered on the complaint of a property dealer, Fazal Elahi, against the PTI leader.

The FIR was registered under Sections 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) and 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The complainant, in the FIR, claimed that Zaidi had taken a loan of Rs180 million from him in 2013. He said that as surety, Zaidi give him the papers of a property valued at Rs16.7 million and promised to pay the remaining Rs12.5 million in next six months.

Fazal Ealhi alleged that he had asked Zaidi several times to transfer the plot in his name but he continued to use delaying tactics. He claimed that later, it was revealed that the file of the property was “fake”.

He alleged that the “suspect had abused his trust and committed fraud”. In his complaint, Ilahi has also sought police protection from Zaidi for himself and his children.

Earlier in the day, Sindh police on Saturday arrested the president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh chapter Ali Zaidi from PTI’s Sindh house.

According to details, the PTI senior leader Firdous Shamim Naqvi confirmed that the Sindh police arrested Ali Zaidi – the president of PTI Sindh – from the party’s Sindh house on Saturday evening.

Firdous Shamim Naqvi alleged that the Sindh police vandalized PTI’s Sindh House prior to the arrest of Ali Zaidi, while the police officials did not show any legal search warrant or First Information Report (FIR) before taking Ali Zaidi into custody.

He said that the raiding party not only broke the cell phones of the party workers who were trying to record the arrest but also took some devices with them.