KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday sent eight policemen to prison in a kidnapping for ransom case.

The policemen — assistant sub-inspectors Faisal Jafferi and Muhammad Arif and constables Jalal Haider, Imran, Mohammad Ashfaq, Syed Shafaat Ali, Mohammad Jahangir and Kafal Noor — were produced in court.

The investigation officer submitted a report in court under Section 497(2) of the criminal procedure code about the release of suspect Noor for lack of evidence.

The judge in charge of the ATC-I, Abdul Naeem Memon, did not entertain the police report and sent all the suspects to prison on judicial remand till May 12 and directed the IO to submit an investigation report on the next date.

According to the remand papers, the suspects allegedly kidnapped Inamullah Khan on April 2 near the Natha Khan bridge and demanded Rs2 million ransom for his release. Later, the amount was settled at Rs500,000. The captive’s relatives saw a police van when they came to deliver the ransom at the designated place, it added.

It further said that the police arrested the suspects near a police post in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on April 4.

A case was registered under Sections 365-A (kidnapping to extorting property etc) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 at the Sharea Faisal police station.

ASI Jafferi was also declared a proclaimed offender by a sessions court a few years ago in another kidnapping and killing case after the police claimed that his whereabouts were not known.

The ASI along with some other policemen was booked in a case for allegedly kidnapping Mohammad Ali Butt in December 2010 within the jurisdiction of the Baloch Colony police station and killing him in a staged encounter.

Amended indictment in DSP murder case on 11th

Another ATC provided on Monday copies of evidence to a recently arrested suspect, Obaid alias K2, in a case pertaining to the murder of a deputy superintendent of police and fixed May 11 for an amended indictment.

Ishtiaq alias Policewala, Syed Abu Irfan alias Urfee, Syed Zakir Hussain, Shafiq-ur-Rehman, Syed Shakir Shah and Khawaja Faisal have already been charged for killing DSP Nawaz Ranjha and his driver on M.A Jinnah Road in August 2010.

The police also booked Obaid alias K2, who was among 100 suspects picked up by Rangers in a pre-dawn raid on and around the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Nine Zero headquarters in Azizabad on March 11, in the present case.

The ATC-IV supplied copies to the suspect under Section 265-C (supply of statements and documents to accused) of the CrPC and adjourned the hearing till May 11 to indict the accused again along with the recently arrested suspect.

Published in Dawn, May 5th, 2015

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