New Delhi: Indian team’s veteran fast bowler Mohammed Shami’s difficulties may increase. Actually, Shami’s wife Hasin Jahan has approached the Supreme Court for the arrest of this cricketer. In her petition, Hasin Jahan has challenged the Calcutta High Court order which had upheld the sessions court’s stay on the arrest warrant issued against Shami.
Significantly, Shami’s wife has filed this petition through her lawyers Deepak Prakash, Nachiket Vajpayee, and Divyangana Malik Vajpayee. It is alleged that Shami used to demand dowry from her and indulged in illegal relations with prostitutes in the rooms provided by the Board on BCCI-related tours.
The petition states that in this case, an arrest warrant was issued against Shami on August 29, 2019, by the court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Alipore. Shami, however, challenged this decision before the Sessions Court, which stayed the arrest warrant and further proceedings in the entire case. After this, Hasin Jahan approached the Calcutta High Court, but the High Court also refused to lift the stay on the arrest warrant.
Hasin Jahan’s petition states that no celebrity should get any special status under the law. It has been said in the petition that the order of the court is clearly wrong in law, which gives importance to the right to a speedy trial. He has said that in the case of the cricketer, the matter has not progressed for four years.
