ISLAMABAD: The Margalla police have submitted to a local court an incomplete challan against the gunman of slain additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) Rafaqat Awan who was killed during the March 3 attack on the district courts.

The police have alleged that the judge was killed when the official revolver of the judge’s gunman went off accidentally.

The police on Friday said the complete challan against Babar Hussain, the gunman of the judge, would be submitted after the investigators received the forensic report of the weapons recovered from the spot.

The report will help the investigators establish the allegation that the ADSJ was killed from the bullets fired from the gun of the gunman, who is a police constable.

In the challan, the police stated that circumstances in the chamber of the judge looked suspicious. The police claimed that the mark on the wall near the door was that of the bullet fired from inside the ADSJ chamber.

Over suspicions, the constable along with the judge’s reader and Qasid were interrogated but their statements contradicted each other. In response, the constable was arrested and his official revolver along with four bullets was taken into custody by the police.

The challan stated that the constable had been given 10 bullets. A man who was present in a room adjacent to the chamber of the ADSJ in his statement told the police that he did not see anyone entering the chamber during the terrorist attack, it added.

A bullet of 39-bore revolver was found from a wooden floor of the ADSJ’s courtroom, the challan said, adding samples had been collected from around the mark of the bullet on the door and sent for examination.

The challan added that the report about the weapons used by the attackers and the bullet marks found on the door between the courtroom and the chamber were awaited.

However, on the direction of the Joint Investigation Team, the incomplete challan was submitted to the court.

Sources close to the JIT, including two deputy inspectors general of police and representatives of intelligence agency, said they were probing the incident to establish the involvement of the constable in the killing of the ADSJ.

No serious step is being taken to investigate the terrorism incident and trace the culprits. As many as 12 people, including the judge, were killed and about 30 other people injured in the attack.