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KARACHI, Aug 13: The district and sessions judge, South, Agha Rafique Ahmed Khan, granted pre-arrest bail to Dr Muhammed Farooq Sattar, a leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and former mayor of Karachi, in a case pertaining to the possession of an unlicensed sub-machine gun (SMG).
The judge gave the former mayor bail before arrest in the sum of Rs100,000.
The Muttahida leader was booked on September 25, 1999 by the Artillery Maidan police following the arrest of two Muttahida workers, Intizar and Nadeem.
According to the FIR, the two workers were on their way in a car (AAH-993) when a police party spotted them and seized the SMG from them. The two workers told the police that both the car and the weapon belonged to Dr Farooq Sattar.
KIDNAPPING FOR RANSOM CASE: An anti-terrorism court reserved on Tuesday the judgment in a kidnapping for ransom case.
Judge Abdul Ghafoor Memon of ATC-2 fixed September 1 for the pronouncement of the verdict after hearing the final arguments from the defence and the prosecution.
Khalid Jameel and Haji Muhammed Iqbal have been prosecuted for kidnapping a 40-year-old foreigner and his son on January 6, 2002.
The police arrested Khalid Jameel and recovered the kidnapped man and his son on January 10, 2002.
Later on January 17 the police arrested Haji Iqbal from Multan on a lead given by accused Khalid Jameel.
M. R. Syed appeared on behalf of the accused persons and Ilyas Khan, assisted by special public prosecutor Mazhar Qayyum, represented the state in the case.
WOMAN REMANDED: A woman, arrested on Monday for allegedly trying to defraud a bank of Rs8.5 million, was remanded to jail custody by Judge Syed Ikram Hussain Jafferi of the special court for offences in the banks.
Sultan Qureshi, a divorcee, was arrested by the Commercial Banks Circle of the Federal Investigation Agency at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal branch of United Bank, where she had reached to draw amount against a fake cheque.
According to the FIA officials, the woman is former wife of the uncle of a UBL director, Rizwan Kehar who happens to be the son-in-law of a former Sindh chief minister.
During the preliminary interrogation, the officials said, she revealed that she have received the fake cheque from a landlord of the interior Sindh, who wanted to make discreet spending on his campaign for the forthcoming general elections. They said the woman could only recall the surname of the landlord as Jamali.
The judge ordered the FIA investigators to submit the final charge-sheet against the suspected woman within 15 days.
