KARACHI, Aug 17: A constitutional petition of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto challenging the legality of a criminal case against her under the Ehtesab Act of 1997 will be reheard on Aug 21.
Because of the delay in the announcement of judgment for more than a year, the petition has now been directed to be reheard on Aug 21 for which notices have been issued to all the respondents as well as to law officers of the federal government.
Ms Bhutto had filed a constitutional petition before the Sindh High Court on October 16, 1997 challenging the legality/propriety of the criminal cases under the Ehtesab Act of 1997 and her character assassination through alleged media trial during the government of now exiled prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
After hearing arguments, a division bench of the SHC, comprising Justice S. Ahmed Sarwana and Justice Mujeebullah Siddiqui, had reserved judgment on May 23, 2001.
CHARGESHEET: Justice Shabbir Ahmed of the High Court of Sindh, who is also the administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts, accepted on Saturday chargesheet against accused Shaikh Mohammed Ahmed alias Danial, of the Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Aalmi, in the case of attacking a police mobile of Supermarket police station, adds APP.
The judge entrusted the case trial to the ATC-I, headed by Judge Syed Aley Maqbool Rizvi.
Earlier, the town police officer of Liaquatabad Town appeared in the court on notice and submitted the chargesheet. An ASI, Qazi Shahid of Supermarket police station, investigation officer of the case, had been sent to jail on Thursday by the administrative judge for contempt of court as he failed to submit the chargesheet in time. According to the case FIR, Danial hurled a handgrenade on a police mobile of Supermarket police station.
