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KARACHI, Nov 28: A bench of the Sindh High Court consisting of Justices Yasmin Abbasy and Mahmood Alam Rizvi on Wednesday dismissed the bail application of Azam Solangi, assistant education officer of Garhi Yasin, Shikarpur.
He is facing trial before an accountability court for issuing 91 cheques amounting to Rs8.83 million against the GP fund for education department employees.
Advocate Haseeb Ahmed said he had been falsely implicated. The amounts were sanctioned by the competent authority and he only signed the cheques as a matter of routine.
Appearing for the National Accountability Bureau, Advocates Ainuddin Khan and Asif Rasheed said there was strong prima facie evidence against the accused and the trial court should be allowed to evaluate it. The release of the accused at this stage would delay and prejudice the trial, they argued.
The bench gave the counsel for a triple murder convict to argue his petition for making the murder offence under the Anti-Terrorism Act compoundable under the law of Qisas and Diyet.
Petitioner Ali Nawaz Khoso was sentenced to death for killing three brothers, Jamal Noor, Salman Noor and Shadab Noor and injuring a fourth, Adil Noor Khan, during a robbery at their bungalow in Darakhshan, Clifton, in August 1998.
He was tried by a military court set up in 1998 by the Nawaz Sharif government and declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. His case was later transferred to an anti-terrorism court, which sentenced him to death three times over.
He also moved a petition for making murder compoundable by the heirs of victim/s under the ATA. His counsel is not appearing in the case and the bench granted a last adjournment to enable him to argue the petition.
