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KARACHI, Oct 26: The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Central, Gulshan Ara Chandio, recorded on Friday final arguments in a case against Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi chief Afaq Ahmed Khan, who was arrested on charges of firing and wounding a sub-inspector of police in Liaquatabad on February 3, 1994.
After hearing the arguments from both sides, the court fixed Oct 30 for the pronouncement of an order in the case.
According to the prosecution, Sub-inspector Rizwan suffered a bullet injury in Liaquatabad where 600 protesters were holding a demonstration against the creation of Malir district. A case (FIR No 51/1994) had been registered at Liaquatabad police station against Afaq Ahmed, former MPA Asif and former MQM secretary finance the late Sardar Ahmed under sections 109, 324, 353, 147 and 148/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code. Later, police arrested Afaq Ahmed while the other accused were declared as absconders in the case.
Defence counsel Suhail Anjum told the court that the prosecution had failed to produce any solid proof about the involvement of the accused in the case. He claimed that the case was totally baseless and had been registered with mala-fide intentions. His opponents wanted to politically victimise him, he added.
Pleading for the disposal of the case, he said police had failed to nominate the actual accused and nomination on a random basis was illegal since it was a mob.
Kidney theft case
The Additional Civil Judge and Assistant District and Sessions Judge, Central, Qazi Mohammad Naeem Siddiqui, issued on Friday notices to the prosecution witnesses in the kidney stealing case against Dr Kashif Mateen, son of Syed Mateen Zaidi, for November 7.
Earlier, the court had fixed Aug 25 for recording the statements of the prosecution witnesses but the statements could not be recorded due to lack of time. The court had indicted the accused on Aug 8 when he pleaded not guilty and opted to contest the case.
The doctor is facing charges of having stolen a kidney from Mohammad Kashif, son of Zamir Hussain Siddiqui, while the patient was undergoing surgery on May 7, 2006.
According to the prosecution, the plaintiff went to North Nazimabad’s Medi Complex Hospital complaining of severe abdominal pain. The clinic, which is run by the defendant, told Mr Kashif that he would have to undergo surgery to remove stones from his gall bladder.
The patient was given medication and operated upon, but the doctor did not tell him that one of his kidneys had been removed.
The patient came to know about the ‘disappearance’ of one of his kidneys only when he felt severe pain and consulted a doctor of another clinic in Paposh Nagar, who had various tests conducted including an ultrasound.
The doctor told Mr Kashif that he had merely one kidney and that the other had been removed.
Mr Kashif got a case (FIR No 280/06) registered against Dr Mateen under sections 334 and 404 of the Pakistan Penal Code at Taimuria police station. The doctor was subsequently arrested on July 8, 2006.
