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KARACHI, Jan 30: An anti-terrorism court issued on Wednesday a contempt notice to the superintendent of the central prison, Karachi, for not producing a local leader of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, who was the complainant in a double murder case.
Muhammed Ilyas Zubair, the general secretary, SSP Karachi, was required by Judge Abdul Hamid Abro of ATC-2 for his evidence in the case against two workers of the banned Tehrik-i-Jafferia Pakistan.
The court had earlier issued two orders for the production of the SSP leader, detained under the Maintenance of Public Order following the imposition of a ban on sectarian parties. However, the jail chief told the court that the detainee could not be produced before the court without official permission.
The court served the jail superintendent with the contempt notice under section 37 and ordered him to appear before the court on February 2 to explain his position.
The TJP leaders were booked in the FIR of the murder of two SSP workers, Mohammed Iqbal and Abdullah.
Later, two TJP men, Syed Muhammed Qasim and Hasan Ali, were arrested by the Site police and five others, including Allama Hasan Turrabi, Mirza yousuf and Asif, were shown absconders.
The two SSP activists were killed and seven others were wounded when their vehicle was fired upon on October 22, last year.
Meanwhile, the court recorded the statement of another prosecution witness, Qari Muhammed Madni, who was sitting in the front seat of the targeted vehicle.
HEARING PUT OFF: The proceedings of another murder case against accused Qasim and Hasan began in the ATC-2, which recorded the statment of two prosecution witnesses.
The case pertained to the murder of a doctor in November last in Nazimabad.
The accused allegedly killed Dr Jameel and wounded Nighat Seema, a paramedic, in an attack on the victims’ clinic.
The court put off the hearing of the case till February 2 after the statements of Farzana Mushtaq, the judicial magistrate who had recorded the confessional statement of accused Qasim, and Dr Zakia, the medico-legal officer, who had examined the injured nurse.
GHOUS ALI SHAH: The accountability court No. 1, headed by Judge Dr Qamaruddin Bohra, adjourned the hearing of a corruption reference against Ghous Ali Shah.
Syed Ghaus Ali Shah has been charged for appointing 122 people in the CAA in violation of rules and regulations during 1992 and 1993 when he was the defence minister.
