KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Monday remanded 29 Indian fishermen in prison for fishing in Pakistani waters.

The Maritime Security Agency had detained the fishermen and seized four fishing boats after finding them fishing inside the exclusive economic zone of Pakistan and handed them over to police.

The police produced the fishermen before a judicial magistrate (west), who sent them to jail on 14-day judicial remand and directed the investigating officer to file a charge-sheet against them at the next hearing.

A case was registered under Sections 3/4 of the Foreigners Act and 3/9 of the Fisheries Act at the Docks police station.

Man jailed for 24 years in grenade attack case

An anti-terrorism court sentenced on Monday a man to a total 24-year imprisonment in a grenade attack case.

Mohammad Jameel was found guilty of hurling a grenade at a police van that caused injuries to a policeman in Nov 2012 in the Sachal area.

Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso of the ATC-I pronounced his verdict after recording evidence of witnesses and final arguments from both sides.

The court handed down a 14-year prison term in the Explosive Substances Act and 10-year imprisonment under Section 334 (punishment for ltlaf-i-udw) of the Pakistan Penal Code since the wounded policeman had lost an eye in the attack.

The court ruled that both the sentences would run concurrently.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs100,000 and in case of default the convict would have to undergo an additional six-month imprisonment.

A case was registered under Sections 324 (attempted murder), 334 and 34 (common intention) of the PPC and Section 3/4 of the Explosive Substances Act read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.

Sher Alam, Zubair Masood and Pervez Masood are absconders in the case.

Man found in illegal detention

On the directive of a sessions court, a bailiff on Monday raided the Kalakot police station and recovered a man kept there apparently in wrongful confinement.

The raid was conducted by the bailiff accompanied by the mother of the detainee and her lawyer after she had moved a habeas corpus application in a district and sessions court.

When the police remained unable to produce any FIR or concrete evidence to justify his detention, the bailiff got the detainee, Shakeel, released on a personal bond.

In the habeas corpus application moved under Section 491 of the criminal procedure code, Habiba Bibi stated that the police picked up her son in Liaquatabad on Sept 26 and were demanding Rs200,000 for his release.

He also directed the SHO and the duty officer as well as the applicant side to appear before the court on Tuesday.

Seeking his recovery, she informed the court that her son had been unlawfully detained for the past three days at the Kalakot police station.

After a preliminary hearing, district and sessions judge (south) Ahmed Saba appointed Mudassar Hussain as bailiff directing him to carry out a raid on the information to be provided by the applicant and recover the detainee if found in wrongful confinement.

Published in Dawn, September 30th, 2014