KB-2022-003483 - [2025] EWHC 1912 (KB)

Passage A is as follows:

“Abrar Qureshi: On which position did you work with Chaudhry Yasin and for how many years?

Sabeel: Yes. I have worked with Chaudhry Yasin for about six to seven years as a private secretary.

Abrar Qureshi: What kind of man is he with whom you worked for six years?

Sabeel: Yes. Well. As I have said in my previous press conferences that he is from our constituency. He, on one hand, enjoys big name, and people call on him for their work, be it the provision of jobs or something else. They request him to get them adjusted or to their daughters or help them in any way he can on some or other issue. It is a fact. The first and foremost thing about him is, as you hear, that he imparts so much value to his tribe. There is too much tribal prejudice in him.

Abrar Qureshi: OK. We, we, we we will discuss these subjects. Whom and how does he blackmail? But first tell me as you mentioned the press conference. I have seen its highlights. Why did you conduct this (Sablee…yes) press conference in Muzaffarabad? Why it couldn’t be arranged in Kotli.

Sabeel: Yes. It is your important question. In fact, when I was judicial, I was maltreated in the jail. In that entire act of persecution, the district administration of Kotli was in collusion with them or, fearing them, was unwilling to take action against them. We approached to the Division but we couldn’t have any output or positive response. Therefore, if I had held my press conference in Kotli or Mirpur, I perhaps wouldn’t have found such response. That’s why; I went to Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Kashmir.”

Passage B is as follows:

“Abrar Qureshi: OK. I got it. Tell me Sabeel, as I have to ask short questions for short answers, why you were jailed.

Sabeel: Well, Chaudhry Yasin trapped me in a fake case with his pre-planned intent. The office of assistant commissioner, Dilan Juttan, the government office of Madam Benish Jaraal was burnt two three months ago. Not only was her office burnt but also slogan bearing her name ‘Go Benish Jaraal Go’ were written in the entire Tehsil, from Kaldub to Narr and from Charhoi to Issar (Abrar Qureshi…right). Then the library established by her was also demolished. In that case, I was….

Abrar Qureshi: OK Sabeel, (Sabeel….in this case, they…) if you have not set Benish Jaraal’s office on fire, then who did so?

Sabeel: Sir, everyone knows that Benish Jaraal was doing her duty honestly. Her sense of duty was a problem to him. Everyone knows it. It was burnt by Chaudhry Yasin. He did so. It was all pre-planned because his basic target was Benish Jaraal. He wanted to defame her, as Chaudhry Yasin was unable to get her transferred. As I have been with him, I know that he requested Mr. Farooq Haider, Finance Minister and the senior member of revenue, but he failed in transferring her. Then he played this conspiracy to transfer her.”

Passage C is as follows:

“Abrar Qureshi: Got it. How long have you been in the jail?

Sabeel: Well. I was in the jail for two months.

Abrar Qureshi: Were you sexually assaulted there?

Sabeel: Of course, I was sexually assaulted. I was tortured afterwards; the worst kind of torture and I was sexually assaulted. Amir Yasin himself made video of the sexual assault to blackmail me. There I was torched, battered, dragged and wounded.

Abrar Qureshi: Then Sabeel, who sexually assaulted you? Did it happen in the presence of Amir Yasin, the existing member of Assembly and he himself made its video?

Sabeel: Yes. I was sexually assaulted by two of his gunmen present there, and he was making video of the crime. The purpose of the sexual assault and the video was that I should give statement against the Assistant Commissioner, Benish Jaraal in the court. They wanted to use me against her. They wanted to blackmail me but I was not blackmailed.

Abrar Qureshi: You still were not. Who burnt you with cigarette?

Sabeel: Amir Yasin himself burnt me as I was flattened to the ground prostrate. I was taken to the B Class. There a prisoner, Raja Iftikhar aka Khari who is associated to Sensa and is serving the death sentence for murder, but there he bullies everyone with impunity, dragged me to him. Shahnawaz Yasin Chaudhry and his men impeached in murder case, pulled me down. Five men seized me while Amir Yasin himself torched me with two cigarettes.

Abrar Qureshi: Shahnwaz Yasin and Amir Yasin are sons of Chaudhry Yasin. Both of them tortured you in the jail?

Sabeel: Yes. In the jail, and openly, in public. It was not only in B-Class of Jail but they also tortured me openly and every prisoner knows it.”

Passage D is as follows:

“Abrar Qureshi: OK. Tell me, as I know that thugs, gangsters, thieves and robbers frequent the jails but wasn’t there any man of principles to see it all happening but he kept quiet.

Sabeel: They all saw it passively. Jail superintendent had great reputation for following the merit. He also belongs to a Sadaat tribe. He is Syed Yasir Kazmi from Bagh. He knows it. I went to him. Then I was severely tortured. I went to him and said, ‘Sir, Allah has bestowed you authority. See what is happening with me. Take action against them. Stop them.’ Once or twice he asked them to stop but they said to him they will get him transferred through the Minister of Jails. They said this to the superintendent in front of me. The superintendent was helpless. Then after two or three days, he acted as if having COVID symptoms and took a leave to stay away. My parents or I couldn’t get anything except pseudo sympathies from the people in touch. They said that we couldn’t defy Chaudhry Yasin, nor could they.

Abrar Qureshi: May these people be destroyed! The jail superintendent, making excuse of COVID, said that he was going on leave. Who threatened him to refrain from intervention, otherwise he would be transferred?

Sabeel: Amir. Sir, in front of me and Amir Yasin who became member of Assembly later, as they went there before the elections and he, in front of me, said, ‘Go and tell the jailer, the superintendent or tell anyone else.’ He challenged me, claiming that he would get him transferred by asking the Jail Minister.”

Passage E is as follows:

“Sabeel: She cried and said, ‘You are like my sons. And this Amir Yasin blackmails my daughter. He has her photos. Her daughter is in Spain. Maybe that sister of mine might be listening. He has got some vulgar footage from somewhere, and he blackmails us daily. If you delete them, please.’ She herself was an officer. She would see that I had phones of Chaudhry Yasin, everything. I managed his calls then. Let me tell you that Amir Yasin is a married person. He had two phone sets; I knew because I also lived in the same house. One set he had when he was with his family while the other one he would hide in the TV trolley that was in the room they had given me. I was already suspicious why he hid the phone before going to his family… Then I took the phone to the washroom in that room and flushed it. And I told them. I think I have done no wrong, as she is someone’s daughter sister, as I have sisters and mothers too. Now she has been saved from blackmailing.

Abrar Qureshi: Then Sabeel, you are saying that the wrong you committed, the stealing of the phone was actually an act of perpetual charity. And you have no remorse or regret on it.

Sabeel: No, no. Not at all. And if they wanted to get the price of that iPhone 5s I was ready to give it. I even said to him to take the money. I used to get wages from them. He didn’t tell anyone in his home about the phone for two or three months that his phone was missing. He knew that it had a problem. He was a thief himself. He knew that they would say that Amir had only one phone. From where had the second phone come? Then he revealed after two or three months that his phone was missing. He said that it was in Sabeel’s room, etc. His real issue was that who knows how many homes he was meant to destroy and he was intoxicated about why did this happen why did he waste it.

Abrar Qureshi: Well. So she was an officer of Education Department, and he had her daughter’s photos…. Objectionable photos the reason for which the existing member of Assembly, Amir Yasin would blackmail her. And at the outcry of her mother, you threw that phone in the toilet.

Sabeel: Certainly, certainly. That is what I did.”

Paragraph F is as follows:

“Abrar Qureshi: Coming back to the word of blackmailing, Sabeel when you were with Chaudhry Yasin for six years, what did you see, find or lose. Whom did they blackmail and how? Have you any evidence?

Sabeel: Sir, evidence of blackmail? All the audiences listening are my evidence. As you also have connections to the area of Paanch Charhoi, and you know that people here are upstanding. Most of them are not highly educated. Some of the aged people whose children, sons or daughters, are getting education, visit Chaudhry Yasin in the village with CVs of their children, saying, ‘Mr. Chaudhry, we voted and supported you. See this is my daughter or son….’ They don’t pay attention towards the sons but their interest is verily in the daughters, planning how to blackmail them. There is no intention to give jobs. They told me loudly for everyone to hear, to give them visiting cards. But Mr. Abrar, if you have a CV, what else detail do you need besides it. Then they say that if they have number, it is ok. If no number, then they should be given visiting cards. I gave them visiting cards. Then they started receiving messages on WhatsApp. Those our daughters, sisters and mothers would call them merely for their jobs, but they had ulterior intentions.”

Paragraph G is as follows:

“Abrar Qureshi: What is at F-10, Islamabad? Why it is a prohibited area?

Sabeel: They have taken a house at F-10 on rent. It is an exclusive cell to appease their lewdness at the cost of Kashmir wealth looted by them. They lavish away hundreds and thousands of rupees in one night. Many people go there. What should I say. Who doesn’t go there?

Abrar Qureshi: What is source of income of Chaudhry Yasin? What have you realised in these six years?

Sabeel: Sir, they have no business. They claim to have some business; some big business. But they have no business. There is a plant of LPG in Mirpur. His elder son, Shahnawaz Yasin he too drinks and stays sleeping so how does he look at it and what income is generated from it? But their source of income is to sell out government land. And when they see a weak person, they grab this plot. On the other hand, they extract money from schemes. It is tax payers’ money but they rip it off and live on it and have reached here.

Abrar Qureshi: Sabeel, you are talking about a person with whom you have been living. You have eaten his food and that person who is called ‘the Lion of Kashmir’. You are talking about that person. Do you realize?

Sabeel: Yes, I am sure.”