KARACHI, Dec 22: Additional District and Session Judge, West, Akhtar Chaudhry on Friday acquitted a man for lack of evidence in the case of murder of his brother. Mohammad Aslam was prosecuted for killing his brother, Ashraf Lashari, in the limits of Mochko police station on December 31, 1999.

Defence counsel Syed Khalid Munir Shah contended that his client was falsely implicated in the case. The ADJ observed that prosecution had failed to prove the charge. Meanwhile, ADJ East granted bail to a woman in the case of an infant’s abduction.

Ms Naila, a nurse working in a hospital in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, along with absconding co-accused, Asif, was charged with abducting an infant from the hospital on October 1, 2006.

The applicants’ counsels, Dur Mohammad Shah and Tariq Hamza Khan, submitted that no case was made out against their client and the matter needed further inquiry. They sought her release on bail. The court granted the bail in a sum of Rs100,000.—PPI