May 16, 2008	Friday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 10, 1429

RAWALPINDI, May 15: Special Judge Central Shaukat Ali Said here on Thursday remanded Ramzan Khokhar, builder of Margalla Towers, which partially collapsed in 2005 earthquake in Islamabad police custody for five days.

The SHO Shalimar Police Station Inspector Chaudhry Ghulam Baqir appearing before the court requested for the physical custody of Mr Khokhar who was arrested on Wednesday after his pre-arrest bail was rejected by the court.

The judge reprimanded an assistant sub-inspector of Shalimar Police who brought the accused in the court escorted by a constable. The judge said only a police official of sub inspector level or higher could produce the accused in the court.

Mr Khokhar was booked for attempted murder, causing amputation of human organs and injuries, abetment, criminal breach of trust, mischief causing financial loss, negligent conduct with respect to pulling down a building, framing an incorrect document with intent to cause damage, concealing criminal design and declaring wrong assets under the 1947 prevent of corruption act (PCA) on October 8 2005 when a devastating earthquake brought down the towers.

Three persons Muhammad Ramazan Khokhar, his wife Kehkashan Khokhar and Sheikh Abdul Hafeez an architect were held as accused and were last year declared proclaimed offenders by a court. Mr Khokhar returned to the country early this year to face the charges.

To avoid the immediate arrest, Mr Khokhar had filed a petition in February with Islamabad High Court seeking that he should be allowed to appear in the relevant court and not be arrested on his arrival in Pakistan.

Meanwhile a civil judge awarded three years imprisonment to two men who attacked and thrashed three persons including two women after entering in their house in Chontra police precincts in 2002.

The Judge Chaudhry Afzal Saqib awarded the punishment to Sher Khan and Javaid Iqbal for attacking Ghulam Haider, Shaheen, Falaknaz. The convicts have to undergo three years imprisonment for their crime.