KARACHI, May 11: The anti-terrorism court No. 4, headed by Judge Khan Pervaiz Chang, reserved on Saturday the judgment in a case, pertaining to the killing of a rangers personnel, till 15th.
Nadir Shah, a former sector in charge of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, and Mohammed Obaid alias Obaid Kaytoo, a party worker, have been prosecuted for killing sepoy Dildar and wounding havildar Mumtaz in an attack in Liaquatabad on July 21, 1998.
Obaid Kaytoo was tried in absentia as he managed to come out of the jail despite being a declared absconding accused in this case.
Earlier, the ATC had sentenced four workers of the Muttahida, including Junaid Ahmed alias Junaid K-2, to death and the trial of Taha Hussain was separated as he was under age. The juvenile worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was also convicted in the case.
However, the Sindh High Court later set aside the sentence of the ATC and reduced the sentence of Junaid K-2 and acquitted the remaining three workers.
The rangers sepoy was killed when a vehicle of the law enforcement agency was fired upon near Hashmia Imambargah in Liaquatabad. Another sepoy, Mumtaz Ali, was injured in the attack. The vehicle had gone to the area to distribute food to the picketing rangers’ personnel.
COL BILAL MURDER CASE: The ATC-3, headed by Judge Arshad Noor Khan, adjourned the hearing of Col Bilal murder case till Monday after recording the evidence of a prosecution witness.
The same court had earlier sentenced Shahzad Mangi to death in this case.
Accused Badaruddin, who was earlier declared a proclaimed offender, is now being tried in the case.
COMPROMISE: The family members of a constable, who was killed in a shootout in Azizabad, pardoned the killer.
Three sisters and a brother of deceased cop, Ghayasuddin, appeared before Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the ATC-3 and recorded their statements.
Fazal Rahim, a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, was earlier awarded capital punishment along with three other workers by the ATC on May 25, 1999.
However, later, a division bench of the high court of Sindh set aside the sentences awarded to four workers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement by an anti-terrorism court.
The bench, comprising Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar and Wahid Bux Brohi, also reduced the death sentence, awarded to one of the accused, to life imprisonment for killing a constable. The convict, Fazal Rahim, was also directed to pay a compensation of Rs100,000 to the legal heirs of the deceased cop.
The SHC bench also granted the appeals of Fazal Karim, Sarwar Khan, Altaf Ahmed alias Shoaib Somi and Muhammed Tahir alias Nasir against the sentences awarded to them for possessing illegal firearms and acquitted them of the charges.
The four men had been charged with the killing of constable Ghayasuddin in a shootout with police on Dec 1 last year in Federal B. Area. The ATC sentenced all four accused to suffer a seven-year term in jail for possessing illegal weapons and sentenced Fazal Karim to death for killing the cop.
Those who recorded their statement of pardon were Syed Sirajuddin, brother of the deceased, and sisters Asifa, Zaheerunnisa and Waheedunisa. One of the sisters, Saira, could not appear before the court due to her illness.
The court fixed 21st for further proceedings in the matter.
