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KARACHI, Jan 28: An additional district and sessions judge, Central, Ahmed Nawaz Shaikh, sentenced on Monday a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to five years imprisonment for attempting to kill a police official.
The worker, Afzal alias Reecha, was booked in 1990 by the Taimuria police for opening fire on then SHO inspector Bahadur Ali.
The judge also fined the convict Rs20,000. He would have to undergo an additional one year’s imprisonment in case of default on the payment of fine.
The court declared party chief Altaf Husain, Dr Imran Farooq, Salim Shahzad and Safdar Baqri proclaimed offenders in the case.
BANDITS CONVICTED: The same court sentenced four house robbers to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs50,000 each.
Accused Nadim, Shahid, Sabir and Pervaiz had looted Rs40,000 and jewellery from Farah Noor’s house in North Nazimabad in 1996.
The convicts would have to undergo an additional two years’ RI if they failed to pay the fine.
An additional district and sessions judge at the Judicial Complex on the premises of the Central Prison, Karachi, Salim Jan Khan, convicted three shop bandits and sentenced them to three years’ RI.
Accused Mohammed Hiyat Khan, Wajid ali and Anwer Shah had looted Rs11,000 on August 22, 1999 from a shop owned by Mohammed Iqbal in Mominabad.
ACCUSED IDENTIFIED: Another prosecution witness identified two workers of the Tehrik-i-Jafferia Pakistan, being tried for the murder of two workers of the Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan in an anti-terrorism court.
Judge Abdul Hamid Abro of the ATC-2 put off the hearing of the case against Syed Mohammed Qasim and Hasan Ali till Tuesday after recording the evidence of PW Qari Shahid.
The two SSP activists, Mohammed Iqbal and Abdullah, were killed and seven others wounded when their vehicle was fired upon on October 22 last year. The victims were on their way home after attending a party rally.
The two TJP men, with five others, including the provincial chief of the party, Allama Hasan Turabi, were booked in the FIR registered at Site police station.
Syed Mohammed Qasim and Hasan Ali were arrested by the Site police and five others, including Allama Hasan Turabi, Mirza Yousuf and Asif, were shown as absconders in the final charge-sheet.
PW Shahid, who was one of those injured in the attack, deposed in the court that accused Qasim, armed with an AK-47 rifle (Kalashnikov), and accused Hasan, carrying a pistol, had opened fire on them when their pick-up reached near the Fazal Umer Textile Mills.
The prosecution, represented by special public prosecutor Mazhar Qayyum, later examined another prosecution witness, inspector Safdar.
Two prosecution witnesses, Mohammed Ilyas, the general secretary of the SSP, Karachi, and Qari Shamsul Huda, have been in jail since the ban on sectarian parties. PW Ilyas is also the complainant in the case.
Earlier on Jan 8, the same court had declared the provincial chief of the TJP and four others proclaimed offenders in a double-murder case.
