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KARACHI, May 21: The additional district and sessions judge, Kausar Sultan, acquitted on Wednesday eight workers of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan in two cases, pertaining to the killing of three people and violent activities.
The cases were registered by the Jamshed Quarters police on Feb 4 and 5 in 1995. Sajid Ali Ghulam Hussain and Sagheer Ahmed were killed.
The judge exonerated Mansoor Ali Babar, Umer Hiyat, Mohammed Fazil, Syed Asif Ali, Kaleem Ullah, Khawaja Saleem Uddin, Atique Ahmed and Mohammed Ahmed from all charges as prosecution could not establish its cases against the SSP men.
The trial of the accused was conducted inside the jail under a notification.
REMANDED: Judge Syed Ikram Hussain Jafferi of the special court for banking offences remanded on Wednesday a suspected crook, involved in credit card fraud, to police custody for interrogation for seven days.
The judge, however, remanded another suspect, a suspended official of the State Bank of Pakistan, to jail custody.
The alleged crook, Raja Tariq Mahmood, and SBP official, Qazi Shujaat alias Raees Ahmed, were arrested late on Tuesday night by a team of Commercial Banks Circle of the FIA on a complaint by the Standard Chartered Bank.
FIA investigator Khalid Jamil produced the two alleged forgers before the special court and requested a 14-day custody of the two suspects. The judge, however, remanded the bank official to the jail custody in view of his illness.
The FIA registered the case against the two suspects on a complaint filed by Aftab Ameen Ali, manager of risk management and fraud control unit consumer banking, Standard Chartered Bank, Karachi.
According to the FIR, the two were involved in getting issued as many as six credit cards and five personal loans in fake names on the basis of forged national identity cards and reference letters and they caused a loss of Rs2.5 million to the bank.
The credits cards were issued in the names of Shahida Nisar Ahmed, Khawer Hussain, Riaz A Khan, Hassan Iqbal and Jamil Ahmed. The personal loans were obtained in the names of Naeem Ahmed, Sajjad Ahmed, Nisar Ahmed, Khawar Hussain and Mohammed Shahoodul Haq.
The credits cards and personal loans were issued on the basis of a reference letter and forged copies of salary slips, purported to have been issued by the SBP.
The racket was unearthed when the Standard Chartered wrote a letter to the SBP for confirmation of the documents attached by the alleged crooks with the applications.
SENTENCED: The district and sessions judge, Malir, Imam Bux Soomro, sentenced four house robbers to suffer rigorous imprisonment for five years.
Accused Abdul Wahab, Salahuddin, Anver and Altaf Hussain, who were prosecuted for committing robbery in the house of Wazir Ahmed in Sharafi Goth on Sept 12, 2001, were also fined Rs20,000 each.
The judge also ordered that the defaulter on the payment would have to undergo an additional six-month term.
COPS ACQUITTED: The judicial magistrate, South, Irum Jahangir, acquitted the lock-up in charge of the City Court and three other officials of the court police in a case pertaining to the escape of an under trial prisoner.
Inspector Maula Bux, head constable Hiyat Khan and constables Nadir and Asif were booked for negligence following the escape of Yousuf, charged with murder, from the lock-up.
The magistrate acquitted the court police men on a report filed by the investigation officer under section 169 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
MAJOR ZARGHAM CASE: The judicial magistrate, South, Rahmat Ullah Moro, reserved the order in the inquiry into a direct complaint against former chief of the CPLC and 19 others, including a senior superintendent of police, for involving an army officer in a Huddood case.
Major Muhammed Zargham Mirza had lodged a direct complaint before the judicial magistrate for registration of criminal case against 20 respondents, including Jamil Yousuf and A. D Khawaja, under section 182, 500 and 506 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Those made respondents in the complaint included: Zaeem Iqbal, ASP, Lubna Tiwana, then SHO of Women Police Station, Inspector Abdul Hakim Bangash, Azhar Ellahi and Sharf Memon.
The magistrate fixed May 27 for the pronouncement of his order on the direct complaint of the army officer.
