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KARACHI, June 30: The Administrative Judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court, Justice Qaiser Iqbal, on Saturday rejected the plea seeking further police remand of the three accused in Nishtar Park bomb blast case and gave them in judicial custody till July 14.
The three suspects with their faces covered were produced before the court amid tight security.
According to the police, Muhammad Amin, Mufti Mohammad Zakir Hussain Siddiqui and Sultan alias Mehmood, stated to be the activists of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, with the help of co-accused Amanullah alias Mufti Ilyas, Qari Abid Iqbal and Khalid alias Abrar had planned the Nishtar Park suicide attack.
Fifty four people, including Sunni Tehrik leaders Abbas Qadri and Iftikhar Bhatti,
and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leader Hafiz Taqi, were killed while about 120 people
were wounded in the Nishtar Park blast when participants of the 12th Rabiul Awal congregation were offering Maghrib prayers on April 11, 2006.
The FIR of the case was lodged under sections 302 and 324 of the PPC, sections 3, 4 of the Explosive Substance Act read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, at the Soldier Bazaar police station.
One of the suspects, Mufti Zakir Hussain Siddiqui, was also produced before the judicial magistrate, East, Allah Bachayo in a case for having unlicensed arms and ammunitions.
The court ordered the police to produce the accused on the next date with complete challan.
PIDC blast
An Anti-Terrorism Court on Saturday remanded a suspect, Abdul Hameed Bugti, in police custody till July 6 for interrogation. He is accused of having masterminded the PIDC bomb blast.
Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch of the ATC-5 ordered the police to produce the accused with complete charge-sheet on the next date of hearing.
Bugti was arrested on June 29 in the limits of Garden police station by the Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC).
He was produced before the Judicial Magistrate, South, Khushi Mohammad, after being charged with keeping illegal arms and narcotics.
Two brothers, Mangla Khan and Aziz Khan, have already been convicted in the PIDC blast case. The blast ripped though the ground floor of the building killing four private security guards and wounding 21 other people. It caused extensive damage to a fast-food outlet and some bank branches on the ground floor and offices on the upper floors. At least 25 vehicles were completely destroyed and another eight were damaged while windowpanes of the adjoining buildings, including a five-star hotel and Dawood Centre, were shattered.
Brahmdakh Bugti, a grandson of the late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Salim Bugti and Abdul Majeed Bugti have been declared proclaimed offenders in the case.
KPT land case
In a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau against Sindh Assembly Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah, Rasool Bukhsh Rahoo and others in an illegal allotment of Karachi Port Trust land case, the Administrative Jude of the Accountability Court, Syed Aley Maqbool Rizvi, on Saturday adjourned the judgement till July 2.
The case was transferred to the NAB from the Anti-Corruption Court.
According to the reference, the accused were charged with selling 75-acre land of the Karachi Port Trust along Mai Kolachi Bypass at throwaway prices, thus causing huge loss to the national exchequer.
The court had fixed June 30 for pronouncement of the judgment in the case, but the date was extended as the defence counsel had filed an application for exemption of the speaker from attending the court.
The exemption application was not entertained and the counsel for the accused was asked to ensure presence of his client in the court on July 2.
