LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday granted post-arrest bail to YouTuber Saad ur Rehman alias Ducky Bhai in a case of promoting gambling apps on social media.
A judicial magistrate and an additional district & sessions judge had denied him bail.
The prosecution accused him of being a member of an international gambling racket and promoting gambling applications.
Earlier, the petitioner’s counsel pointed out that the allegations mentioned in the FIR were baseless.
He said the petitioner’s wife had, in fact, registered a case against the officials of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) for alleged misuse of authority and extorting money to favour her husband in the investigation and the anti-corruption wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had arrested the officials.
He said the FIA had told a magistrate that more than Rs25 million had been recovered from the officials and all these officials are in jail on judicial remand.
The petitioner’s wife, Aroob Jatoi, has secured pre-arrest bail in the same case, he added.
The counsel also argued that the co-suspects in the case of alleged gambling applications had already been granted bail.
ourt to allow him bail order release of the petitioner.
The court after hearing the argument, allowed the bail to the petitioner subject to furnishing surety bonds of rupees one million.
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