Three bus carnage suspects remanded in prison

Published July 17, 2015
Tahir Hussain Minhas alias Sain, Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin alias John and Asad-ur-Rehman alias Malik and their absconding accomplices have been booked for killing 47 people, including women, of the Shia Ismaili community in an attack on their bus near Safoora Goth on May 13. —PPI/File
Tahir Hussain Minhas alias Sain, Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin alias John and Asad-ur-Rehman alias Malik and their absconding accomplices have been booked for killing 47 people, including women, of the Shia Ismaili community in an attack on their bus near Safoora Goth on May 13. —PPI/File

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court remanded on Thursday three suspects in prison in the Safoora Goth bus carnage case.

Tahir Hussain Minhas alias Sain, Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin alias John and Asad-ur-Rehman alias Malik and their absconding accomplices have been booked for killing 47 people, including women, of the Shia Ismaili community in an attack on their bus near Safoora Goth on May 13.

After the end of their physical remand, the police again produced the suspects in court and submitted that their custody was no longer required for questioning.

Judge in charge of the ATC-I Mohammad Javed Al­a­­­m sent them to prison on judicial remand till July 27 and asked the investigating officer to submit an investigation report on the next hearing.

The counterterrorism department of police claimed to have arrested Tahir and Saad with two other suspects on May 20 in Gulshan-i-Maymar after a shootout and booked them in many cases pertaining to an armed encounter, and possessing illicit weapons and explosive material. Asad’s arrest was shown on June 4.

The suspects remained in police custody since their arrest and besides the main case the police also booked them in dozens of cases, including the murder of Sabeen Mahmud, bomb attack on a Bohra community mosque, killing of some police officers and a naval official, attack on the life of American national Debra Lobo and grenade attacks at Islamic Research Centre Imambargah, Ayesha Manzil, and at a private school in North Nazimabad.

Published in Dawn, July 17th, 2015

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