The Federal Investigation Agency on Wednesday apprehended journalist Mohsin Baig from his home on the complaint of Federal Minister Murad Saeed days after he passed “derogatory remarks” about the top-performing minister during a TV show.
The FIA’s Cyber Crime Wing raided the journalist’s house in the federal capital and took him into custody.
Later, a court in Islamabad declared FIA’s raid at Mohsin Baig’s residence illegal, hours after he had been arrested. “…illegal raid was conducted at the house of [Baig] by irrelevant persons who were not authorised to do so,”
Additional Sessions Judge Islamabad West Zafar Iqbal said in the judgement of a petition filed against the journalist’s arrest.
In the five-page judgement, the additional sessions judge noted that the first information report against Baig was lodged at an FIA cybercrime reporting centre of the agency in Lahore on behalf of federal minister Murad Saeed.
Meanwhile, as per a statement issued by the law enforcement agency, the officials raided Baig’s house in Islamabad’s Sector F-8 on the complaint of Murad Saeed.
The FIA conducted the raid after obtaining a formal search and seizure warrant from the court, read the statement. “During the raid, Mohsin Baig and his son and servants directly fired at the FIA team and made two officials hostage,” said the investigation agency.
It added that Baig was arrested after he ran out of bullets and was taken to Margalla police station for legal proceedings. According to the first information report, filed at the FIA’s CCW Lahore, Baig had used “immoral language” for Murad Saeed in a talk show.
