LAHORE, March 28: An anti-terrorism court on Monday directed the prosecution department to submit a report (challan) in Rescue-15 building attack case by April 4.

On the last hearing, the court had also sought submission of the challan but in vain.

As many as 26 people, including an army colonel and 15 policemen, were killed while 350 injured when an explosives-laden vehicle hit the Rescue-15 building on Queen’s Road in 2009. The explosion also damaged the adjacent office of an intelligence agency.

The police with the help of intelligence agencies arrested Sarfraz, Abid and Shabbir and registered a case against them under sections 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

IMPRISONMENT: Additional sessions judge Abdul Jabbar Khan on Monday sentenced three people, including a woman, to life imprisonment in a murder case.

Sajjad Khan, Zulifqar Ali and Saima Bibi had murdered Muhammad Azeem Butt in Tibbi police precincts in 2007.

REMAND: An accountability court on Monday extended physical remand of eight officials of accountant-general’s office and the police department who are allegedly involved in a Rs21.456 million embezzlement scam by April 11.

NAB authorities produced Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Ali, Shoaib Sardar, Imran Shah, Sajawal Ashraf, Gulfam Rasool, Muhammad Adnan, Kashif Iqbal and two private people, Mehmood Ahmed and Shoaib Sardar, in the court and sought extension in physical remand for conducting further interrogation which the court did.

The accused allegedly made 35 transactions and fraudulently transferred the money under various heads from the accountant-general’s office in Lahore during the months of July and August 2010.

The transactions were made using the codes of CCPO’s office and the drawing and disbursement officer of the Punjab Highway Patrol Police.