KARACHI, June 7: A judicial magistrate remanded in police custody eight suspects in the case of torching of a KFC restaurant, which claimed six lives, on Tuesday. JM Khalid Hussain K. Leghari gave Syed Ali Haider Kazmi, Hamid Hussain, Iftikhar Hussain, Sajjad Haider, Shafa Ali, Nasir Ali, Sajid Ali and Wajid Hussain to police till June 13.
Asif Ali, Mohammed Salim, Ilyas, Farooq, Asfad Ali and Ghulam Hussain were killed on May 30 when the restaurant in Gulshan-i-Iqbal was set on fire following a terrorist attack on the Madinatul Ilm mosque.
WARRANTS: An anti-terrorism court issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of sacked provincial minister Imtiaz Shaikh and five co-accused in a kidnapping for ransom case.
Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch of the ATC-5 ordered the police to arrest the accused and produce them before the court.
Imtiaz Shaikh, Agha Asghar, Nasir Mehmood, Mehmood Zakir, Mohammed Ashfaq and Ateeq Ahmed Siddiqui have been shown absconding accused in the case pertaining to the kidnapping of complainant Zafar Iqbal’s 12-year-old son. Mahfooz is the lone arrested accused in the case.
CONVICTED: The additional district and sessions judge, South, Sher Bano Karim, sentenced a man to serve a life term for raping a woman.
The judge also sentenced Iqbal to 30 whips and imposed a fine of Rs25,000 on him.
The accused was found guilty of having kidnapped the 19-year-old victim on August 19, 2003. The accused took the victim to Lodhran, Punjab, and kept her there for two months.
He came back with the victim on Oct 5, 2003 and was arrested at the Cantonment railway station.
