KARACHI: A local court on Monday once again issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan chief Dr Farooq Sattar and other party leaders in a case pertaining to rioting and other offences outside Chief Minister House during a protest demonstration against water crisis in June last year.

Dr Sattar with Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and 10 other party leaders were shown absconders in the case registered under Sections 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon) 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Advocate Mehfooz Yar Khan, one of the booked MQM-P leaders, appeared in the case.

The accused persons in the case could not be arraigned due to the absence of the absconding accused and the court put off the hearing to Nov 18.

Ex-IG, SSPs indicted

An accountability court framed charges against former provincial police chief Ghulam Hyder Jamali, former assistant inspector general Fida Hussain and six other accused persons in a mega corruption case against them.

The accused persons denied the charges, pleading not guilty.

The court directed the prosecution to produce its witnesses in the case, and put off the hearing to Nov 8.

Published in Dawn, October 31st, 2017