KARACHI: The administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts remanded on Thursday a former station house officer in police custody in the Arshad Pappu murder case.
The Rangers had detained former SHO Chand Khan Niazi, one of the proclaimed offenders in the triple murder case, in February under three-month preventive detention for an inquiry and then handed him over to police.
The police produced the suspect before the administrative judge of ATCs of Karachi and sought his custody for questioning. The court handed him over to the police on one week physical remand.
Shahjehan Baloch, an MNA of the PPP from Lyari, along with some former police officials and other accused have been charged with killing Arshad Pappu, the alleged leader of an infamous Lyari gang, his brother Yasir Arafat and their confidant Juma Shera, in March 2013.
The detained chief of the banned Lyari Peoples Aman Committee, Uzair Baloch, has also been recently shown arrested in the case.
Niazi, the then SHO of a Lyari police station, along with his accomplices has been accused of allegedly kidnapping Pappu and two others in Defence and handing them over to the Uzair group in Lyari.
The prosecution said that the rival group had killed the captives after subjecting them to torture and the bodies of Pappu and his brother were thrown in manholes in Kalakot after being mutilated.
Remand extended
The same court extended on Thursday physical remand of a suspect in a case pertaining to the murder of renowned philanthropist Perween Rahman till May 30.
The police claimed to have arrested Raheem Swati on May 7 after a shoot-out in Manghopir and found illicit weapons and explosives in his possession and claimed that he was the prime suspect in the Perween Rahman murder case.
Later, the police obtained his remand in the murder case and reproduced him on Thursday seeking extension in his custody. The court extended the remand for five days.
The murder case is pending trial before an ATC against detained suspects Ahmed Khan, alias Ahmed Ali, alias Pappu Kashmiri, and Mohammad Imran Swati while Raheem Swati, Ayaz Swati, Amjad Afridi and Shaldar Khan were shown absconders in the last charge sheet filed in October, 2015.
Meanwhile, an accountability court dismissed on Thursday an application of a former secretary for petroleum seeking exemption from appearance in an over Rs460 billion corruption reference.
Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2016
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