HYDERABAD, Nov 7: The civil judge and judicial magistrate-X of Hyderabad on Wednesday remanded Allah Dino alias Asif Baladi, a nationalist leader, in police custody in a case filed under Explosive Substance Act.
Mr Baladi, chief of Sindh Nationalist Forum, had been missing since June 26. His family claimed he had been picked up by personnel of intelligence agencies.
Nationalist parties have been protesting over his disappearance for months and now they are demanding that he be released immediately.
Latifabad police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested Mr Baladi from Jinnah International Terminal Karachi, where they said he had landed from a private airline in the morning.
Police were interrogating him about a case filed on March 2 this year at Qasimabad police station after arrests of some nationalist parties’ activists in an alleged raid in Sehrish Nagar and subsequent recovery of explosives and weapons.
Qasimabad police, meanwhile, remanded nine activists belonging to Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz and Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party to jail custody under Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO) for 90 days. They had been arrested over the last couple of days from different areas of Qasimabad.
CONFESSION: Nadeem Akhtar, who had confessed to slaughtering two of his friends in similar fashion, repeated his confession before the civil judge and judicial magistrate-X on Wednesday when police produced him in court for recording the statement under section 164 Cr.PC.
Investigating Officer Zulfikar Baloch said that the court remanded Nadeem to judicial custody after he confessed to his crime and narrated in detail how he had murdered Haseeb Ahmed, a high school teacher on Oct 28.
He will be produced again in court for recording his confessional statement about the murder of Rehan alias Shakeel. The cases had been filed in A and B section police stations of Latifabad.
Nadeem had earlier said in his confession that he had deceived Haseeb into believing that he would hit jackpot by winning draws of Rs7,500 prize bonds if he did what he (Nadeem) asked him to do.
He invited Haseeb to his home where he stabbed him with a dagger, cut the body into pieces and stuffed them in plastic bags, which he threw into his house’s water storage tank.
Nadeem confessed to the murder after police found decomposed pieces of the body during a search of the house for murder weapon. He confessed to killing another man, Rehan alias Shakeel on June 28, during interrogation by supervising police officer (SPO) of Latifabad Ayub Durrani.
