KARACHI, Nov 13: A sessions court on Saturday indicted a senior official of the Federal Investigation Agency and a woman on charges of murder.

Additional director of the FIA Ahsanullah Khan and Poonam Virma have been charged with killing a businessman within the remit of the Boat Basin police station in 2007.

The additional district and sessions judge (south), Abdul Razzaq, who was conducting the trial, read out all the charges against the accused. However, they pleaded not guilty and opted to contest the case.

The court summoned prosecution witnesses with direction to record their evidence on Dec 9.

According to the prosecution, Shabbir Supra was killed in a flat of his secretary Poonam Virma on Oct 12, 2007 within the remit of the Boat Basin police station.

The police arrested the victim’s secretary as the last call received by the deceased on his cellphone was made from her phone.

During interrogation the woman named Humayun and the police arrested him for his alleged involvement in the case. But he was released under Section 497 (2) of the criminal procedure code (CrPC).

It added that in her statement recorded under Section 164 of the CrPC before a judicial magistrate, Poonam said that Ahsanullah Khan had asked her to call Mr Supra and he allegedly killed him when he arrived at the flat.

A case (FIR 392/2007) was registered under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 435 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Boat Basin police station.

The FIA official was on bail while the lady accused was in jail custody.