KARACHI: 2 Muttahida men acquitted in ‘encounter’ case
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, June 5: The additional district and sessions judge, South, Farooq Ali Channa, on Wednesday, acquitted two workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in a case pertaining to violent activities.
Rafi Danish and Syed Jawaid were prosecuted for several charges, which included attempted murder, shootout with police and arson.
They were booked by the Gulbahar police in 1998, for resorting to violent activities to effect a party-sponsored strike in parts of the city.
The judge, however, exonerated the two from all charges as the prosecution could not prove its case against them.
Three Muttahida leaders, Kunwar Khalid Younus, Shoaib Bukhari and Vakeel Jamali, were earlier acquitted in this case by the court for want of incriminating evidence.
Meanwhile, the same court also acquitted another Muttahida worker prosecuted for possessing an unlicensed pistol.
Muhammed Tanveer alias Chachu was booked under Section 13-D of the Arms Ordinance by the District Central police.
He was acquitted due to lack of evidence.
CONVICTED: The special anti-narcotics court, headed by Judge Ali Nawaz Pirzada, sentenced a drug-pusher to suffer rigorous imprisonment for seven years.
The judge also imposed a fine of Rs100,000 on Mohammed Gulab, arrested on Feb 1, 2001, by the Mominabad police with five kilograms Charas.
The drug-trafficker will have to undergo an additional six- month term of simple imprisonment in case of default on payment, the judge further ordered.
The accused was convicted by the judge after he confessed to his crime, pleading guilty. Two co-accused, however, preferred to be tried.
According to prosecution, the two co-accused — Hameedullah and Saqiullah, both brothers — were arrested and charged in the case following a lead given by the accused Muhammed Faraz, who disclosed that the contraband drug was supplied by the two.
CARJACKERS JAILED: The additional district and sessions judge, Farooq Ali Channa, sentenced three vehicle snatchers to suffer rigorous imprisonment of three years each.
Accused Khan Muhammed, Arif and Mumtaz Ali had deprived Abdul Hameed of his taxi at gunpoint in 1996, within the limits of the Baloch Colony police.
The judge imposed a fine of Rs5,000 each on the convicts and ordered that the defaulter on the payment would have to undergo an additional three-month term of simple imprisonment.
