Magistrate orders five-day remand over Laiba Aijaz case
An Islamabad magistrate gave police five days with the main suspect after Laiba Aijaz, 20, died by suicide following an alleged fraud over US studies.
An Islamabad magistrate granted police a five-day physical remand of the main suspect; police had asked for 10 days.
Laiba Aijaz, 20, allegedly died by suicide last week. Police say she was defrauded of Rs5 million paid for studies in the United States.
After Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered an arrest, the suspect and two female accomplices were held in separate raids. He appeared before Judicial Magistrate Zunaira Zafar with his face covered.
The FIR says her father agreed to pay Rs9.3 million. The FIA says the pretext was a Harvard admission and a job for her brother, followed by fake travel documents.
Police registered the case under PPC sections 322 and 34. The FIA filed a separate case on cheating, abetment and immigration-related fraud.