KARACHI: LJ man sent to jail in sectarian killing case
KARACHI, March 18: An administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts in Karachi on Saturday sent Mohammad Anwar, brother of convicted activist of banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Gul Hasan, to jail and directed the investigation officer to submit chargesheet against him on March 25.
Mohammad Anwar alias Osman Baloch is charged with killing Syed Asghar Ali Zahidi in Baghdadi on May 7, 2002.
The police said that the accused was arrested on March 8 and during investigation he disclosed murder of Syed Asghar as part of his contribution in the mission of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi.
He was produced before AJ Justice Khilji Arif Hussain of Sindh High Court. The AJ remanding him to jail directed the investigation officer to submit charge-sheet against him on March 25.
Mah Bibi, mother of Mohammad Anwar, however, filed a petition in Sindh High Court against illegal confinement of her son, and the matter is pending before court.
His brother Gul Hasan was earlier sentenced to death by an ATC in Karachi on June 4, 2005, for masterminding suicide bombings at Imambargah Hyderi and Ali Raza in Karachi which left 45 worshipers dead and 127 others wounded in May 2004.
Meanwhile, the AJ, granting further time, directed the IO to submit charge-sheet against three accused, facing kidnapping for ransom charges, till March 25.—PPI
