Punjab police refute claims of lodging FIR against Shahid Afridi in fraud case

Punjab police on Tuesday categorically denied the claims of lodging a First Information Report (FIR) against former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi in a fraud case related to a housing scheme.

Taking to the social media platform Facebook, the Punjab Police shared a soft copy of an FIR with the caption: "There is absolutely no truth in the news circulating on some social media accounts regarding the filing of an FIR against former cricketer Shahid Afridi under the provisions of fraud in Rawat police station, Rawalpindi."

"No FIR was registered [against Afridi]. The petitioner has filed an FIR against other persons and mentioned an advertisement [in which Afridi was featured] in the text [of an FIR]," a provincial police spokesperson said in a post.

To refute the claims, the 46-year-old cricketer shared the post on his Facebook timeline.

Earlier it was reported that Shahid Afridi, along with ten other people, were booked in a case related to the alleged fraud in a housing society project.

In an FIR, the victim said that a construction company owned by the suspects persuaded him to buy two shops on the mezzanine floor in the project AAA Business Centre through an advertisement featuring Shahid Afridi.

However, the copy of an FIR showed that Afridi was not mentioned as the fraudster in the case.