The court also issued notices to the Interior secretry, SHO Police Station Waris Khan, Rawalpindi and others.
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He submitted that the wife of the murdered customs officer had suspected Ayyan Ali’s involvement in the case as her spouse had been investigating the currency smuggling case against the fashion model.
“Nothing awful will happen if she stays out for a few more days”, observed Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan while heading a two-judge bench that took up a hurriedly filed petition by the model.
Ayyan Ali is facing the money laundering case and her name has been repeatedly put and omitted from the Exit Control List during the previous year.
Inspector Ijaz Chaudhry allegedly died in Benazir Bhutto Hospital after he was shot in the leg. A case developed when late customs official’s wife pleaded in a court that he was murdered to “protect” Ali in a money laundering case.
Therefore, the order for Ayyan’s arrest should be declared null and void, Khosa said. Otherwise, he feared, the police would arrest his client any time.
A Rawalpindi court on Thursday issued non-bailable arrest warrants of model Ayyan Ali in Customs inspector’s murder case.
Earlier, Chief Justice, Anwar Zaheer Jamali formed formed a two-member bench headed by Justice Ijaz Afzal to hear the case after filing of petition early in the morning.
Mr Khosa also also requested the court to restrain the federal and Punjab government from harassing the model in any manner whatsoever and taking any adverse step against Ayyan without seeking prior approval of the Supreme Court.
Mahmood was shot and wounded on June 2 2015 outside his house in limits of Waris Khan Police.
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The Custom Inspector was head of the PIA Cargo Air Freight Unit (AFU) at Benazir Bhutto International Airport.
