KARACHI, Feb 22: The Anti-terrorist Court No. 1, headed by Judge Aley Maqbool Rizvi, adjourned the hearing of the US Consulate car-bombing case against the leaders and workers of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Aalmi after the statement of a judicial magistrate.

JM Rahmat Ullah Moro had conducted the identification parade of the accused persons.

The chief of his own Aalmi faction of the banned organisation, Mohammed Imran, his deputy, Mohammed Ashraf, and finance secretary, Mohammed Hanif, and workers Sharib and Zubair have been charged with the car-bombing that had killed 12 people, including five women, and injured 43 others.

The judge, who is holding the trial of the case inside the Central Prison, Karachi, put off the proceedings till next Saturday and ordered the prosecution to produce its further witnesses on the next date of hearing.

The Civil Lines police cited as many as 50 prosecution witnesses in the case.

The judicial magistrate deposed before the court that he had conducted the identification parade of accused Hanif, Imran, Sharib and Zubair. He said he had also recorded their statements under section 164 of the CrPC.