OKARA: The Renala Khurd magistrate handed over an additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) to police on a five-day physical remand.

Judge Abdul Jabbar was booked in two cases. In one case he was booked under sections 302 and 34 of the PPC for allegedly shooting at and injuring a man two days ago, who died later that day in hospital. The victim, Waheeduddin, was involved in litigation with the judge’s son-in-law Pir Minhajul Islam and to save his relative the judge allegedly gunned Waheed down. The victim’s son, Jalal, had filed an application for registration of a case against the judge.

In another case, the judge had been nominated under sections 324 and 429 of the PPC for shooting at and wounding two buffalos of Mukhtar Ahmad of Basti Hazoor Sahib in Renala Khurd.

The complainant stated that the judge drove by in his official car and demanded a buffalo pen along the passage be removed, and then started shooting at the animals.

On Sunday night, Renala police nabbed judge Jabbar and presented him in the court of area magistrate Ameer Ali on Monday, who handed him over to police on five-day physical remand and directed him to appear in court on April 7.

Published in Dawn, April 3rd, 2018