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KARACHI, June 26: A division bench of the High Court of Sindh comprising Justice Anwer Zaheer Jamali and Justice Faisal Arab on Tuesday admitted for regular hearing an appeal against the sentence awarded by a trial court in the PIDC bomb blast case.
Convicts Aziz Khan and Mengla Khan challenged the judgment announced on May 31 by a judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC-V), Haq Nawaz Baloch, who convicted them and handed down death and other punishments to both the appellants. They were convicted for carrying out the blast that occurred near the PIDC building on November 15, 2005.
According to police, the blast at the PIDC building left four people, Sabz Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Javed Iqbal and Noor Rehman, dead and total 21 persons seriously injured.
Both the appellants/convicts were sentenced to death for causing death to the four people. For the injuries they caused to the people, they were awarded imprisonment for 10 years and ordered to pay a fine of Rs50,000 to each of the injured.
For causing the bomb blast, both convicts were sentenced to suffer life imprisonment as well as forfeiture of their entire property. Both the appellants were also directed to pay compensation of Rs200,000 to the legal heirs of every victim.
The convicts have prayed to the SHC to set aside the impugned judgment announced by the trial court.
The bench has admitted the application and also issued notice to state for a date to be fixed by the office.
ACQUITTAL PLEA: Another division bench of the High Court of Sindh comprising Justice Anwer Zaheer Jamali and Justice Faisal Arab on Tuesday admitting an appeal against the punishment awarded by a trial court and issued notice to state for regular hearing.
Convicts Muhammad Azam and Attaullah moved an appeal against the judgment given on April 28 by an anti-terrorism court (ATC-V), headed by Haq Nawaz Baloch, who convicted them and handed down death to both convicts.
The ATC's judge had acquitted the chief of the banned outfitLashkar-i-Jhangvi, Mian Mohammed Ajmal, better known as Akram Lahori, in the same murder case while it awarded death to both convicts.
The convicts were facing charges of killing Sadiq Ali Hamshiri in his bakery on March 2, 2002 at Kharadar. The deceased was a trustee of the Hussainian Iranian Imambargah, Kharadar.
Giving the benefit of doubt, the ATC judge had acquitted Akram Lahori while it awarded death to the appellants/convicts for firing on the victim.
The ATC-5 judge conducted trial against the accused inside the Central Prison, Karachi.
The convicts have prayed to the SHC to set aside the impugned judgment announced by the ATC-V.
STREET CRIME: A single bench of the High Court of Sindhcomprising Justice Yasmeen Abbasey on Tuesday directed the superintendent of the Central Prison, Karachi, to produce an accused booked in a mobile phone snatching case before a medical board to ascertain his age.
The bench was hearing a bail application preferred by Gul Zaman, facing charges in the cellphone snatching case.
Appearing for the applicant, Advocate Muhammad Waheed Kazi contended that at the time of the commission of the alleged offence, the applicant was a minor.
The court has ordered that the applicant be referred to the medical board for ascertaining his age. The superintendent of the Central Jail has been directed to produce the applicant before a medical board constituted by the police surgeon, Karachi.
According to a complaint registered on May 26, 2006 by Ashiq Hussain, three boys, including the applicant, snatched a mobile phone from him at gunpoint.
BAIL GRANTED: A single bench of the High Court of Sindh consisting Justice Yasmeen Abbasey on Tuesday granted bail to an accused in a murder case.
The bench has allowed bail to the applicant, Muhammad Saeed, on furnishing a surety of Rs400,000.
The applicant/accused is facing charges of murder of Mirza Shah Jahan, who was killed on April 10, 2005, in Saeedabad. — APP
