KARACHI: Two cops’ bail plea dismissed in plunder case
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, March 1: Justice Amir Hani Muslim of the Sindh High Court dismissed the bail applications of two policemen accused of plundering a citizen’s house.
A case against Head Constables Zulfiqar and Karam Elahi, and Constable Imran, and others was registered after an inquiry by a deputy inspector-general of police following a complaint by Malik Shahzad Husain, who alleged that a police party from Manghopir Police Station raided his house in Sector 13-D, New Karachi, and took away his licensed rifle, jewellery pieces and Rs 12,000 on February 21, 2006. He was called to the police station later and compelled to pay an additional Rs 12,000 to secure his freedom. While the Manghopir SHO was freed on bail by the trial court, Imran and Karam Elahi approached the high court when their bail pleas were rejected.
Contesting the applications, state counsel Sadruddin Qureshi submitted that the police force was meant to protect the life and property of citizens and if they indulged in looting as claimed by the complainant, they must be tried without being any concession. Accused Imran also impersonated as an ASI during the commission of the offence, he said.
DOCTORS’ CASE: Disposing of a petition by 10 doctors and officers of the Liaquat National Hospital, meanwhile, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed and Justice Faisal Arab ordered the allegation against them should be duly investigated by a senior police officer independently.
A case against the doctors was ordered to be registered by the sessions judge of district east on the complaint of journalist Mohammad Kabir, who said his wife and new-born child died due to the criminal negligence of the hospital doctors and administration.
The order was questioned by the accused before the high court. Advocate Azizullah Shaikh appeared for the petitioners and Mohammad Ali Azhar for the complainant.
APPEAL DISMISSED: An appeal in a 19-year-old murder was disposed of by a division bench on Wednesday.
The severed body of Nasreen, wife Colonel (retd) Saifullah was found on the railway track near Malir in March 1988. A medical report concluded that she died of injuries received in a train mishap.
The deceased woman’s brother, Amjad Ali, however, alleged that she was killed by her husband and her body thrown on the track. Her body was exhumed in Lahore and three-member medical board opined that she received certain injuries before being fatally hurt. Amjad moved an appeal against Saifullah’s acquittal by a sessions court, which was dismissed the high court.
