KARACHI: An antiterrorism court remanded on Wednesday a constable in police custody in an acid attack case.

Constable Zeeshan has been booked for allegedly attacking and injuring his ex-fiancée Raheela, her brother Khan Mohammed and their seven-month-old nephew Mohammad Hadi with acid on Eid night within the jurisdiction of the Mobina Town police station.

The police produced the suspect before the court and sought his custody for questioning. ATC-I Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso handed him over to the police on three-day physical remand.

The prosecution said that the victim along with her family was returning home in a car after shopping when the suspect along with his absconding accomplice Agha Sohrab attacked them. Raheela was critically injured in the attack, it added.

A case was registered under Sections 324 (attempted murder), 336 (punishment for itlaf-i-salahiyyat-i-udw (destroys or permanently impairs functioning power or capacity of an organ of body of another person or cause permanent disfigurement) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 at the Mobina Town police station.

Suspected hit man

The same court remanded on Wednesday a suspect in prison in three cases pertaining to targeted killing.

Umair Hassan Siddiqui, said to be an activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, along with his accomplices has been booked for allegedly killing Rangers Lance Naik Shaukat near the Suparco office in 2010 and Hussain Gabol in 2012 in Mobina Town.

He was also accused of purportedly killing tea vendors Niaz Gul and Iqbal Hussain at a restaurant in Gulshan-i-Maymar in April 2013.

The Pakistan Rangers placed the suspect in March under 90-day preventive detention and handed him over to the police last month.

After the end of his physical remand, the police reproduced the suspect and the court, sent him to prison on judicial remand till July 29 and asked the police to submit investigation reports on next hearing.

Published in Dawn, July 23rd, 2015

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