*ISLAMABAD – A district and sessions judge issued on Wednesday arrestwarrants for anchorperson Dr Shahid Masood in a mobile phone snatchingcase.*
The judge also rejected Masood’s pre-arrest bail. An FIR against theanchorperson was lodged in Islamabad’s Ramna police station on thecomplaint of a journalist.
In his application, the journalist said that Masood snatched his cell phoneand deleted all his data without his consent at the Islamabad High Court afew days ago.
The journalist said that the anchorperson used abusive language against himand warned him of dire consequences. The anchorperson is currently in theFIA’s custody in the PTV corruption case.
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Masood was arrested on November 23 and is being investigated for hisalleged involvement in the embezzlement of Rs38 million. According to theFIA, he signed an agreement with a fake company to obtain the media rightsfor the Pakistan Cricket Board.
The officials had said earlier that the state-owned television channelsuffered a huge loss because of the agreement.
