RAWALPINDI, Nov 8: Three persons were indicted on Saturday for planning to carry out suicide attacks on the offices of senior police officials. They, however, pleaded not guilty and said they would contest the charges against them.

The accused Khurram Ishtiaq a resident of Rawalpindi, Ghulam Mustafa of Kahota and Shamim Alam of South Waziristan had planned to carry out suicide attacks on the offices of DIG and SSP, using tempered vehicle, possessing illegal explosive materials and terrorism.

ATC-II Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahot adjourning the hearing till November 24 directed the prosecutor to present their witnesses on the next date of hearing.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted the charge sheet against the accused arrested on August 24 from a house in Muslim Colony on a tip-off. High explosive materials were also recovered form them.

In another case, the court directed the station house officers of Banni and R A Bazaar Police submit the charge sheets in two terrorism cases on November 17.

In the case registered with R A Bazaar, the court on last date of hearing expressed anger over the delay in completion of investigation against the four accused Shafiqur Rehman, Niaz Ahmed, Mazharul Haq and Abdul Saboor allegedly being involved in a suicide attack outside the main gate of GHQ on November 24 last year.

The court also directed the SHO Banni police to submit the charge sheet On November 17 against the accused Mazharul Haq and Niaz Ahmed for their alleged role in the case of firing at the plane of former president Pervez Musharraf from a roof top of a house on Asghar Mall road on July 6 last year when he took off from Chaklala airbase.

According to details, law enforcing personnel recovered a 12.7mm anti-aircraft gun and a 7.62mm machinegun from the roof of a rented house after the area people heard gun shots. Though the government denied at that time the target was the plane, Banni police registered an FIR under sections 120-B, 121-A, 122, 123 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), terrorism and possession of illegal weapons against the unknown persons.