KARACHI: Factory owner denied bail in boiler blast case
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Sept 4: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday refused bail to the owner of the factory where a boiler blast caused the deaths of nine people.
Justice Mohammed Moosa K. Leghari observed that the accused man, Akhtar Baloch, was responsible for safety and accident prevention measures in his factory and granting him bail could not currently be considered.
Through the defence counsel advocate Khawaja Naveed Ahmed, the defendant had submitted that the explosion in his factory had not been caused with criminal intent and the people hurt had been the defendant’s friends and associates.
Nine people were killed and 25 were injured when a boiler exploded in the ABC Dyeing Factory at Anwar Goth, District Central, on July 24.
Notices served in Seed Corporation case
Concerning a petition challenging the termination of officials from their services in the Sindh Agriculture Department’s Seed Corporation, a division bench of the Sindh High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the provincial agriculture secretary and others for Sept 11, adds APP.
Petitioners Imdad Ali Tuniyo, Ghulam Nabi Khoso, Shahmeer Khan, Gul Hameed and Wahid Bakhsh have moved the court against their termination from posts in the corporation.
The petitioners’ counsel Mohammed Nawaz Sheikh submitted that the petitioners were officers in the Seed Corporation under service grades ranging from 16 to 18 and that the agriculture secretary, without the requisite power or authority, terminated the petitioners’ services which constituted interference in the business of the corporation’s managing director.
