September 09, 2008	Tuesday	Ramazan 8, 1429

RAWALPINID, Sept 8: An anti-terrorism court here on Monday sent three men charged with plotting to attack police officers in the city to the Adiala jail on 14 days’ judicial remand.

ATC-II Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahot sent Khurram Ishtiaq of Rawalpindi, Shamim Alam, a resident of South Waziristan, and Ghulam Mustafa of Kahuta to the jail after an assistant director of the Federal Investigation Agency said they had completed the preliminary investigation and did not want their further physical custody.

The accused were reportedly arrested at Misrial area of Rawalpindi Cantonment by the FIA on August 24 with suicide vests and other explosive materials.

The FIA registered a criminal case against the three accused under section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of PPC, section 4 and 5 of explosive act and section 7 of anti-terrorism act for planning to attack the offices of SSP and DIG of Rawalpindi police.

The FIA had also obtained the arrest warrants of eight other men in the case. They were Mohammad Tayyab Mehmood alias Baba, Usman alias Shah Jee and Abdul Rahim alias Bablu, all residents of Sargodha; Qari Hussain, Habibullah of South Wasirirstan, Sajid Dilore, Qari Saleem, residents of Miramshah and Ustad whose real name and residence are unknown.

Meanwhile, ATC-I Judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman remanded two men and a woman in physical custody of Airport police for five days for allegedly kidnapping a four-year-old girl for ransom.

The police had sought the physical custody of Ghuncha Gul, Aitbar Khan and Shamim Bibi to trace the head of the group and recover the vehicle and weapons used in the crime.

Rania, 4, went missing on August 27 while coming home from school with her housemaid Shamim Bibi. Later, through a phone call the kidnappers asked the girl’s father, Mohammad Ali Khan, to pay a ransom of Rs2 million for the safe release of the girl.

Police recovered the girl from NWFP on August 31 after tracing the whereabouts of the maid and arrested Ghuncha Gul, a former driver of Mohammad Ali, and Aitbar Khan, the nephew of Ghuncha Gul.