KARACHI, Feb 26: A drugs court on Saturday issued warrants for the arrest of two officials of the Federal Investigation Agency and one official of the Sukkur police for failing to appear in court to testify in two cases pertaining to the sale of unauthorised drugs.

Inspector Mohammad Ali Abro and Sub-Inspector Abdul Rauf Shaikh of the FIA were prosecution witnesses in a case against accused Zia-ur-Rehman and others, who were arrested in the parking lot of a hotel in Feb 2007 by the FIA, which claimed to have recovered smuggled drugs from their vehicle and in a house in Nazimabad.

In the second case, the then SHO of the Sukkar police station, Anees Ahmed, along with a drug inspector raided a medical store in Sukkur in Jan 2010 and recovered unregistered Indian drugs.

All the officials failed to appear in court to record their statements despite repeated notices, reminders and warrants issued by the court for the past couple of months.

The three-member drugs court headed by Sathi Ishaq issued non-bailable warrants against the two FIA officials through their director till March 17. A non-bailable warrant for the arrest of the then SHO was also issued through the Sukkur SSP till March 15.

The drugs court directed the authorities to arrest them and produce them in court on next hearings.

‘Midwife’ sent to jail

A judicial magistrate on Saturday remanded a suspected midwife in judicial custody in the five foetuses case.

Nuzhat Aslam, said to be posing as a lady doctor, was arrested on Feb 23 at her clinic in Chakra Goth in connection with the case of the five foetuses found in a garbage dump in Manzoor Colony on Feb 14.

Following the expiry of her one-day police remand, the police produced the suspect before a judicial magistrate (south), who sent her to prison on judicial remand till March 4 and directed the investigation officer to submit a charge-sheet.

A case (FIR 25/12) was registered under Sections 329 (concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body), 338-B (isqat-i-janin or cause a pregnant woman to miscarry), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offence) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Mehmoodabad police station.

UTP pushes man off court building

A man was seriously injured when an undertrial pushed him off the second floor of a sessions court building on the premises of the city courts on Saturday, police said.

The undertrial, Mohammad Arshad, has been charged with making an attempt to kill complainant Shahzada over a monetary dispute within the remit of the Boat Basin police station last month.

The hearing of the attempted murder case was fixed for Saturday before Additional District and Sessions Judge (south) Shahid Hussian Chandio and the accused, who was on bail, and the complainant came to the city courts to appear in court.

The police said that Shahzada was waiting for his turn outside the courtroom, situated on the second floor of the sessions’ court (south) building, when the accused came from behind and pushed over the complainant, who fell to the ground from the second floor and suffered serious injuries.

Some policemen were present near the scene and they overpowered the accused shortly after the incident. The injured was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi, where his condition was said to be critical.

A case (FIR 21/2012) was registered against the undertrial under Sections 324 (attempted murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s father at the City Courts police station.

A police official said that the accused and the victim were business partners and they had a monetary dispute and the complainant had lodged an FIR (6/2012) against him and his accomplices under Section 324 and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Boat Basin police station.