Judge video leak case transferred to ATC.

Islamabad: The case of former accountability court judge Arshad Malik's 'immoral video' took another turn on Monday when a cybercrimes court in Islamabad ordered its transfer to an anti-terrorism court (ATC) for further proceedings. As the hearing of the case resumed, an investigation officer of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) told the court that the suspects have been identified as Hamza Arif Butt and Faisal Shaheen. To this, the judge asked the officer about the claims made in the previous application. Responding to the court, the officer said that same suspects had been identified in the prior application.

The suspects' counsel pleaded the court to reject transfer of the case to the ATC as terrorism clauses were inapplicable to the case. To this, the judge remarked that clauses of terrorism had already been added in the case and therefore it needed to be transferred to the...