KARACHI: An antiterrorism court remanded a man in judicial custody in a case pertaining to the murder of a Karachi University professor.

Sami-uz-Zaman has been booked for allegedly killing Dr Syed Waheedur Rehman, better known by his pen name Yasir Rizvi, in a drive-by shooting near the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases in Federal B Area on April 29.

The police arrested the suspect on June 14 and the following day he was remanded in police custody for 14 days.

After the end of his remand, the police produced the suspect in court and the judge of the ATC-II sent him to prison on judicial remand and asked the investigation officer to submit the investigation report.

A case was registered under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 at the Yousuf Plaza police station.

Published in Dawn, July 1st, 2015

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