By Ali Imran
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected US blogger Cynthia D Ritchie’s petition against a judge’s directives to the FIA to file a case against her, media reported.Ritchie had challenged the order of the Additional Sessions Judge of Islamabad at the high court, saying that the FIA should not register a case against her as she had not committed any crime.
The court said on Monday that it could not interfere in the FIA’s investigations and ordered the agency to continue its probe into the US blogger according to law.
Earlier, the petition against the verdict was heard by the IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah, in which lawyer Imran Feroze Malik appeared in the court on behalf of Ritchie.
During the hearing, lawyer Imran Feroze Malik had read out the decision of the session judge regarding the registration of the case, to which the Chief Justice asked how he was affected by the decision.
