KARACHI, March 10: The injured policeman, whose rifle was snatched and later used in the attack on the picket next to the US Consulate, on Monday identified the suspect involved in the killing of two policemen.
Sub-inspectors Ameer Badshah and Murtaza were killed in the attack and five others, three of them cops and another ranger, were injured when the alleged attacker opened fire at their picket with the rifle he had snatched from his first victim, constable Alam Zeb.
Zulfiqar Ali was brought amid tight security to the court of the Judicial Magistrate, South, Rahmat Ullah Moro, who conducted the identification parade and recorded the statement of constable Zeb, the second eye-witness.
As Alam Zeb identified the alleged attacker, the court gave Zulfiqar in the police custody for interrogation and investigation till March 13. Earlier, a sanitary worker had identified the alleged killer.
CONVICTED: The additional district and sessions judge, South, Farooq Ali Channa, sentenced a bike snatcher to a five-year rigorous imprisonment.
The judge also imposed a fine of Rs5,000 on Saifullah, who snatched the bike from one Basheer Ahmed at gun-point on July 8, 1998, in Artillery Maidan Police jurisdiction.
The convict will have undergo an additional one-month term in case of default on the payment.
The same court sentenced Mehmood Ali to suffer a five-year term for committing a house robbery.
The accused had barged into the house of Haji Ali and decamped with the loot on June 27, 2000, in the Kalri police jurisdiction.
The judge also fined him Rs5,000 and ordered that the bandit would have to undergo an additional one-month term in case he defaulted on the payment.
ZARGHAM CASE: A judicial magistrate put off the proceedings of an inquiry into a direct complaint against the chief of the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee and 19 others, including a senior superintendent of police, for involving an army officer in a Hudood case.
Magistrate Rahmat Ullah Moro fixed March 12 to record the statement of judicial magistrate, Syeda Perveen Shah.
Major Mohammed Zargham Mirza had lodged a direct complaint with the judicial magistrate for registration of a criminal case against 20 respondents, including Jamil Yousuf and A. D. Khawaja, under sections 182, 500 and 506 of the PPC.
According to the Zargham Mirza, he was implicated in the case by the respondents to defame the army.
In his complaint, lodged with the permission of 5-Corps, Major Mirza stated that on Jan 9, 2000, a woman, Saba Ibad, knocked at his door to make a phone call. She left his home with her cousin, Hasan Abidi, who reached there after 20 minutes.
The major stated that the woman, with her cousin, again visited his house after two days, but he refused to help them any more and informed the CPLC.
He submitted that Saba, being followed by the CPLC men, reached his residence on Jan 13. He said the woman was moved to her parents with Mrs Shaheena Mehmood of the CPLC.
On the same day, Abaduddin, the father of the woman, lodged an FIR under section 11 of Hudood Ordinance with the Baloch Colony police.
However, later the matter was taken up by the military court where the father of the woman deposed that he was forced to get the FIR lodged.
Those made respondent in the complaint included: Zaeem Iqbal, ASP, Lubna Tiwana, then SHO of Women Police Station, Inspector Abdul Hakim Bangash, Azhar Ellahi and Sharf Memon.
Five senior army officers, three of them serving, were among those who were summoned as witnesses by the magistrate on an application of the complainant. They also recorded their statements.
The counsel for the complainant would forward his final arguments for lodging the case against respondents on the next date of hearing.
