Shumaila Anjum Rana - The Cyber Thief of PML-N

LAHORE: A citizen filed an application of credit card theft and its misuse against a PML-N MPA Shumaila Anjum Rana at Ghalib Market police station on Saturday.

Shumaila Rana talking to Geo News denied her involvement in the theft and rather claimed that her servant misused the credit cards. Geo News, which broke the story, acquired CCTV footage from the shop owner and telecast it.

The applicant Moqeet Salam, in his application, said that his sister Zaira Malik attended classes at a health centre of Sukh Chain Club. He said that a couple of days ago his sister attended a class at the health centre after placing her bag in a room at the club, and MPA Shumaila Rana also attended the class on the same day. The accused MPA left the class early and as Zaira picked up her bag, she found her two credit cards — one of UBL and other Bank Al-Falah — missing from the bag, the applicant added.

Zaira told the applicant (her brother Moqeet) that she called the helpline of the two banks to inform that her cards were misplaced and block both the cards.

But as the officials at help centres of both banks told Zaira that someone had swiped the cards for Rs80,000 at two separate shops, one of them a jewellery shop, she panicked and visited the shops. The shop owner showed the CCTV footage to the card owner in which it was proved that Shumaila Rana had swiped the credit cards to purchase jewellery and clothes.

However, no case was registered till the filing of this report.

This correspondent tried to contact MPA Shumaila but she was not available at her cell phone and landline number. Duty officials at Ghalib Market and Gulberg police stations also denied receiving any such application.

A senior police officer, requesting anonymity, said that police were probing the incident and examining the CCTV footage and other evidence and if it was found that the incident was true, a case would be registered as per law.

On the issue, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah said that the rule of law would be maintained if the accused MPA was found guilty.

He added that action would also be taken under party discipline if the allegations levelled against the MPA proved true.