KARACHI, June 18: Another eyewitness on Saturday identified activists of Jundullah Attaur Rehman and Shahzad Bajwa as attackers who fired on a ranger van in Ferozabad on March 19, 2004. Mohammad Shafiq, a food vendor, testified this before an Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi during his deposition. He said he saw the accused who fired on Ranger mobile. He was later cross-examined by defence counsel M.R Syed.
ATC Judge Feroz Mehmood Bhatti fixed June 21 for the next hearing.
BLAST CASE: Two alleged activists of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, facing charges for their alleged involvement in Madinatul Ilm mosque suicide bombing case were sent to jail on Saturday.
Justice Amir Hani Muslim of the Sindh High Court who is also administrative judge of the Anti-Terrorism Courts in Karachi directed the investigation officer of the case, Mohammad Aslam, to submit charge-sheet against Mohammad Tehseen and Mohammad Altaf alias Mufti before court on June 25.
The accused were produced before the court amid tight security. The IO sought judicial custody of the accused and sought time to submit charge-sheet against them.
Granting the request of the AG, the court sent the accused to jail and also ordered medical treatment of the injured accused, Tehseen.
The jail superintendent was directed to admit the accused in jail hospital and provide him medical treatment if jail doctor suggests his admission after examination.
Tehseen alias Arshad was one of the attackers, arrested by the police in an injured condition after a shootout on May 30.
During interrogation, he gave information about his accomplice Altaf who was arrested in Gulistan-i-Johar for his alleged involvement in the case.
The case was registered against the accused at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal police station under Section 302,324,353,427/34 of Pakistan Penal Code with Section 3,5 of Explosive Substance Act, read with Section 7 b, 6 of Anti-Terrorism Act.—PPI
