KARACHI: Bail granted to PPP leader in murder case
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, May 16: The district and sessions judge, South, Agha Rafique Ahmed Khan, granted on Monday bail to Khalid Shehansha, a local leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, in a murder case.
The PPP leader, who had surrendered himself before the court three days ago, was given bail in the sum of Rs300,000. He was represented by Shahadat Awan.
Khalid Shehansha was booked in the murder case of Abdul Karim alias KK, who was shot dead last year in his sixth floor Paradise Palace Apartments in the limits of Artillery Maidan police station.
MURDER CASE: Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the anti-terrorism court No 3 put off hearing of a kidnapping-cum-murder case against two accused after recording the statement of the investigation officer.
IO Sub-inspector Aslam Jatt was also cross-examined by M R Syed, counsel for Asif alias Sajjad. The judge, however, reserved till Tuesday the cross-examination of the IO by Khawaja Naveed, counsel for accused Sheeraz Uddin, as the court rose for the day.
Victim Raghib Hussain was kidnapped and killed by a gang of five, one of whom posing as a girl on the internet had talked him into going on a date.
Accused Sheeraz Uddin and Asif, who had been declared absconder, were later arrested in December last year.
Earlier, on Oct 18 last year, the same court had sentenced two accused -– Khurrum Mushtaq and Ather Ali — to suffer life imprisonment on two counts of kidnapping and murder of the victim, a 20-year-old student.
The victim was kidnapped around 11:30am on April 1 last year and later in the evening he was found unconscious near Sigapore Towers in Sharea Faisal police area.
He was first taken to Jinnah Hospital and then was shifted to the Liaquat National Hospital. On April 2, he told his mother that he was kidnapped by his friend, Sheeraz Uddin, who posed him as a girl on the internet.
The victim told the family that on March 31 the imposter asked him into going on a date. He stated that he reached the Rado Centre in Gulistan-i-Jauhar in his Suzuki FX car. He said that Sheeraz, along with a girl, got into his car and they kidnapped him at gunpoint.
According to the victim, the cuople took him to a bungalow in Gulistan-i-Jauhar where accused Khurrum, Asif, and Ather were already present.
He stated that accused Asif injected drug in his chest as the other accused caught hold of him. He said that after a little while Asif injected another syringe in his chest and he went unconscious.
The victim’s mother, who also appeared as a prosecution witness in the trial court, stated that her brother had seen her son going with a man and a woman in his car. She said around 1:30 pm, the kidnappers phoned her and demanded Rs1 million for the release of her son.
She said that around 8:30am the kidnappers again phoned her to tell that her son was lying near Singapore Tower. The victim died at the hospital on April 16 and his mother informed the Gulistan-i-Jauhar police about the incident.
Sub-inspector Umeed Ali Meerani visited her and obtained her statement. However, on the same evening, the SI was killed in an attack on the Gulsitan-i-Jauhar police station.
The investigation of the case was assigned to Sub-inspector Aslam Jat, who inspected the bungalow and seized two disposable used syringes.
The IO also recorded the statement of the owner of the bungalow, who had rented it out to accused Sheeraz, son of a senior official of the Sui Southern Gas Company and resident of the Defence Housing Society.
