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KARACHI, Sept 5: An additional district and sessions court on Friday sentenced a man to four years in prison in a robbery case.
The judge, pronounced his verdict after recording final arguments from both sides. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs2,000.
The court in its verdict observed that the prosecution had successfully proved its case against the accused, Iftikhar Karim, by providing the court with sufficient evidence.
According to the prosecution, the convict, Iftikhar Karim, along with his four absconding associates had forcefully entered the house of Mohammad Irfan in Orangi Town on October 22, 2004 and looted jewellery, money and other valuables.
A case was registered under Section 392/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of Irfan at the Orangi police station.
Iftikar Karim was indicted in 2006 on charges of committing robbery and depriving the complainant of valuables. However, he pleaded not guilty and had opted to contest the case.
Meanwhile, the anti-terrorism court-II rejected an application filed under Section 23 of the Anti-Terrorism Act for the transfer of a kidnap-cum-murder case.
The defence counsel, Mushtaq Ahmed, in the application said that the case did not fall under the jurisdiction of the ATC and should be transferred to a regular court, maintaining that the prosecution did not mention about ransom in the FIR and the deceased was killed inside the house. He said that the police had no evidence except the confessional statement of the accused, which he alleged was forcefully taken.
According to the prosecution, Shahzad, Ms Shahdab and Babar had kidnapped Mohsin on October 23, 2007 from the limits of the Super Market police station. The accused had allegedly collected Rs1 million from the victim’s family and later killed him. The accused were arrested on Feb 2, 2008.
The case was registered under Sections 356 and 302/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Super Market police station.
Recovery of girl
A district and sessions court ordered the station house officer of the Shahrah-i-Noor Jehan police station to recover a 17-year-old girl allegedly kidnapped by her cousin within two days.
Earlier on Sept 4, the judge had directed the SHO to recover the girl and produce her in court on Friday.
However, the SHO through a report informed the court that the detained girl could not be recovered since the police lady searchers were not available and sought some time for the girl’s recovery. The court asked the SHO to recover the kidnapped girl and produce her in court within two days.
The father of the girl, Mohammad Maskeen, had submitted an application to the court of district and sessions judge, central, stating that his nephew, Jahanzeb, with the help of his friends had kidnapped his daughter, Nadia, a student of Class X, from their native town in district Mansehra while she was on her way to school on July 22.
The applicant said that on Aug 28 he came to know that Jahanzeb along with associates Ali Jan, Sawar and others, had taken his daughter to Karachi and detained her in Umer Farooq Colony, in the limits of the Shahrah-i-Noor Jehan police station. He said that he reached Karachi on Aug 31 and made many efforts for the recovery of his daughter but to no avail and therefore had moved the court to help him out of this problem.
The application said that Jahanzeb wanted to marry Nadia but Mohammad Maskeen had opposed the matrimonial alliance. This opposition ultimately led to the kidnap of Nadia.
