Abdul Qadir, sons booked for life threats to lawyer over failure to withdraw rape case

Lahore, Oct.22 (ANI): Former Pakistan legendry leg-spinner Abdul Qadir along with his two sons Rehman Qadir and Salman Qadir have been booked for threatening a lawyer.

Hearing a petition filed by an advocate Mehmood-ul-Hassan Gilani, a Lahore sessions court directed the concerned authorities to register a case against Qadir, his two sons and six other unnamed persons.

Gilani has accused the former cricketer and his sons of threatening to kill him, The News reports.

Gilani, in his petition, has said that Qadir along with his sons and six unidentified persons were threatening him to withdraw the case that he had lodged against the former bowler accusing him raping his maid named Noreen Bibi.

"Abdul Qadir's maid namely Noreen Bibi came to him and told him that Abdul Qadir raped her at gunpoint after which he submitted an application at Ghaziabad police station for the registration a rape case against Abdul Qadir but none of the police official paid heed to it," Gilani's petition states.

Later, Gilani had moved an application in the court of additional district and sessions judge, following which the court ordered the Ghaziabad police to book Qadir and others. (ANI)