KARACHI, March 26: The teenaged boy who is suspected of having killed his teacher in her apartment was denied bail on Wednesday by an additional district and sessions court.
Qaiser Butt, 13, and his friend, Sufiyan Ali, 15, were charged with the murder of Saima Irfan, a teacher at the St. Patrick’s Boys High School, who was also a private tutor of the young suspect.
Saima, 26, mother of an infant, was found slaughtered on Jan 23 in her apartment on the 12th floor of the Taj Complex on M. A. Jinnah Road.
The Brigade Police arrested the suspects after the husband of the deceased, Irfan Ali, quoted his wife as telling him that Qaiser, a student of class seven, had threatened her of dire consequences.
According to police, the boy had spent the tuition fee for his teacher on his friends and he became enraged when she scolded him.
The police also seized two kitchen knives, used in the offence, from the flat.
The final charge-sheet was presented against the accused, being prosecuted under the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000, in the court of additional district and sessions judge, Syed Sagher Zaidi, who fixed April for hearing the case.
Meanwhile, the defence counsel for Sufiyan withdrew the bail application of his client.
RAPIST CONVICTED: The district and sessions judge, South, Agha Rafique Ahmed Khan, sentenced a man who attempted to rape his woman employer to serve a sever-year term in jail.
Hakeem Shah, driver of Ms Farida, had barged into her house on March 23, 2001, within the limits of the Frere police and attempted to rape her.
CASE AGAINST LAHORI: Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch of the Anti-terrorism court No. 5 put off the hearing of a double murder case against the chief of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Akram Lahori, and two others after recording the statement of a prosecution witness.
The chief of the Lashkar, Akram Lahori, Ataullah and Mohammed Azam, are facing the charges of killing Anver Tirmizi and Zulfiqar Haider on March 4, last year within the limits of the Shah Faisal police.
Inspector Rao Iqbal, who was examined as the second prosecution witness by special public prosecutor Syed Nadeem Hussain Shah, was also cross-examined by Mohammed Ashraf Mughul, the defence counsel appointed by the court on state expenses.
The judge fixed Friday for the next hearing and ordered the prosecution to produce further witnesses in the case.
REINSTATED: The Service Tribunal, comprising Mr Akbar M Memon and Mr Barkat Ali Baloch, ordered the reinstatement of four employees of the KESC.
Yamin Mazhar, the late chairman of the KESC’s People Workers Union, Syed Ahsan Ahmed Zaidi, information secretary, Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan, meter inspector, and Mohammed Nadeem, an office assistant, were forcibly retired on August 10, 1999, under section 2 (A) of the Removal of Services Ordinance.
The four workers later filed appeals in the Services Tribunal, which allowed their appeals and ordered that “all the four appellants be reinstated in their respective jobs with all back benefits, accruing to them, as they were regular and permanent employees of the respondent corporation.
The chairman of the Peoples Workers Union died on May 26, 2001, during the pendency of appeal.
