Legal tussle among US blogger Ritchie and Pakistan senator Malik ends

Islamabad: Cynthia D Ritchie, the US blogger performing in Pakistan for just about a decade, has withdrawn her plea in the Islamabad Higher Court docket (IHC). She had sought orders from the courtroom for registration of a prison scenario towards previous Inside Minister Senator Rehman A Malik for allegedly raping her in 2011.

Ritchie had arrive forward with the startling allegations past calendar year in June when she discovered in a movie message that she was raped by the former Interior Minister when she visited his home in the Minister’s Enclave Islamabad in a subject relating to her visa.

In accordance to her, she had lifted the problem with the US mission in Pakistan and some good friends who suggested her to retain peaceful as those people have been the days when Osama Bin Laden was hunted by the US marines on the Pakistani soil and the Obama administration did not glimpse eager to go into a further diplomatic row with the Pakistan govt.

Before long just after her charges had been described in media, Malik vehemently denied them and in return submitted a defamation fit versus her.

Nevertheless, on Thursday, it seemed equally the events had struck a reconciliation offer and the counsel for the US blogger Imran Feroz Malik knowledgeable the IHC that his consumer was no extended interested in further pursuing it.

He also knowledgeable that Malik experienced also withdrawn his petitions against her. Justice Amir Farooq of the IHC though accepting the request dismissed Ritchie’s petition.

Ritchie, who identifies herself as a media director and producer had also accused two other leaders of the Pakistan People’s Social gathering (PPP), former Primary Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and former Health and fitness Minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin of inappropriately touching and hugging her. Individuals accusations too experienced been denied by both the PPP leaders.

“In 2011, I was raped by the former interior minister Rehman Malik. That’s appropriate. I’ll say it yet again. I was raped by then interior minister Rehman Malik,” Ritchie experienced mentioned in a video clip article past calendar year on June 6.

She had included even more “I was physically manhandled by [former] federal well being minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin and PM Yousaf Gilani though he was staying at President House.”

About the stop by at Malik’s home, she experienced explained, “I considered it was a conference about my visa but I was presented bouquets/a drugged drink. I kept silent.”

Later, she moved a plea in the nearby courtroom of Islamabad for directing the law enforcement to file a case towards Malik. The court docket having said that turned down her ask for that compelled her to transfer an application in the Islamabad Superior Court docket for the similar directions to the court and the police.

Malik filed a request to the district and classes courtroom in Islamabad in July seeking to file a case towards Ritchie under the Offence of Qazf (Enforcement of Hadd) Ordinance, 1979. According to this ordinance whoever levels bogus allegations of fornication is liable to punishment in accordance to the Pakistani laws.