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KARACHI, Aug 1: The district and sessions judge, East, Ali Sain Dino Matilo, sentenced on Thursday a man to seven years in jail with a fine of Rs5,000 for mugging a woman.
Habibul Wahab had snatched a hand bag from Fauzia, a schoolteacher, in Ferozabad in 2000.
The convict would have to undergo an additional six months’ imprisonment if he failed to pay the fine.
COURT NOTICE: An additional district and sessions judge, Central, Ghulam Qadir Leghari, issued showcause notice to the inspector-general of prisons, Sindh, for his failure to produce a worker of the banned Sipah-i- Sahaba Pakistan in the court.
The judge fixed Aug 7 for the reply of the IG Prisons.
Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadim was booked in a sectarian murder case in 1994 by the New Karachi police.
NBW: An additional district and sessions judge, Central, issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of DSP Abdur Rasheed for his failure to attend the court proceedings despite repeated notices. The judge also ordered the police authorities to withhold the salary of the DSP, who is required by the court for his evidence in a murder case.
A lance naik of the rangers, Mohammed Yaqoob, is facing the charge of murdering a newspaper hawker, Syed Zafar Ali, in North Nazimabad.
The court ordered police to arrest the DSP and produce him in the court on Aug 8.
CONVICTED: The judicial magistrate, East, Sohail Akhtar Mangi, sentenced a man to two years in prison with a fine of Rs1,000 for possessing an unlicensed pistol.
Rajab Ali, arrested with an unlicensed pistol last year in Korangi, would have to undergo an additional one month’s imprisonment in case of default on the payment of fine.
REMANDED: The judicial magistrate, West, Mumtaz Ali Solangi, remanded an alleged drug pusher in the custody of the Jackson police for interrogation till Aug 5.
Police had arrested Hashim with 11kg charas.
JUDGMENT RESERVED: An accountability court reserved judgment on the acquittal application of a contractor, being tried with four other accused for causing a loss of more than Rs24.26 million to the national exchequer.
Judge Mohammed Jawaid Alam of the AC-4 fixed Aug 10 for the announcement of judgment on the application of accused Sham Lal Lasi.
The judge had earlier rejected applications for the acquittal of three former officials of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation in a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau.
The accused — Akhtar Hasan Ansari, former general manager, transmission and distribution, KESC, Abdul Rahim Samoo, former chief engineer, Ashfaq Ahmed Baloch, executive engineer, and contractors Sadiq Ali and Sham Lal Lasi — were booked under section 9 of the NAB Ordinance.
According to the prosecution, a scheme for providing an additional power load of three megawatts to the Korangi Fisheries Harbour Authority (KFHA) was approved by the board of directors and the managing director of the KESC on September 2, 1995.
However, the accused KESC officials, with the connivance of the then manager (engineering) of the KFHA, Hameedullah (now deceased), and the accused contractors, granted permission on November 15, 1995 to the KFHA to carry out execution of the work through their own contractors without taking into consideration the conditions of the approval.
It was alleged that the KFHA awarded contract to Decent Electronic Services of Sadiq and Sham Lal, who did not carry out the work properly as per specification. Consequently, a fault erupted in the project within 20 days of its energization.
Accused Ashfaq Ahmed Baloch was also charged with failing to supervise, with malafide intent, the execution of the work and safeguarding the interest of the Corporation. He allegedly allowed the contractors to carry out sub-standard work and released the running bills to them without verifying the work.
The contractors were charged with carrying out sub-standard work and receiving huge amounts against fake supplies and works.
