KARACHI : Remand of PIDC blast ‘mastermind’ extended
By A Reporter
KARACHI, Sept 8: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday extended the judicial remand of Abdul Hameed Bugti, who is accused of masterminding the PIDC bomb blast on Nov 15, 2005, till Sept 27.
Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch of the ATC-V ordered the police to produce the accused in court with a complete charge-sheet on the next hearing.
Special Public Prosecutor Mohammad Mazhar Qayyum informed the court that charges against the accused could not be framed because the original file of the case had been submitted to the Sindh High Court.
He said that the case could be processed only after the availability of the file which, he said, had been transferred when the co-accused in the same case —two brothers Mangla Khan and Aziz Khan — submitted their appeals against a court verdict.
Mangla Khan and Aziz Khan have already been convicted in the PIDC blast case.
Mr Bugti was arrested on June 29 in the Garden police limits by the Anti-Violent Crimes Cell, later renamed the Anti-Violent Crimes Unit.
The blast had ripped through the ground floor of the PIDC House — a multi-storeyed building also housing the offices of the Pakistan Petroleum Limited — killing four private security guards and injuring 21 others.
It had caused extensive damage to a fast-food outlet and some bank branches on the ground floor and offices on the upper floors.
The two brothers had been condemned to death on each count of murder and sentenced to 10 years in jail on each count of injuring people and also sentenced, under Section 3 of the Explosive Act, 1908, to life in jail for possessing and using explosive material.
Brahmdakh Bugti, a grandson of the late Nawab Akber Khan Bugti, Salim Bugti and Abdul Majeed Bugti have been declared proclaimed offenders in the case.
