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GUJRANWALA, March 20: A man, who was pursuing the case of his father and five brothers’ murder, was shot dead allegedly by his old rivals near the sessions court here on Thursday.
Mumtaz Ahmad and his five sons were shot dead by Kaka Daud and others over an old enmity a few years ago. Daud was later arrested and sentenced to death. Nowadays he is serving his jail term.
Ahmad’s son Ansar was pursuing his father and brothers’ murder case against Daud and his accomplices. On Thursday, Ansar was shot dead allegedly by Daud’s accomplices near a church on Sialkot Road. The assailants fled after killing Ansar, the last male member of his family.
DECLARED ‘INNOCENT’: Police investigators have declared ‘innocent’ six people accused of murdering five men in the Lohianwala locality last year.
Former union council nazim Muhammad Aslam and his friends Nasirullah, Aslam, Nazir Ahmad and Nazar Bhinder were shot dead by unidentified assailants at an outhouse on Sept 4, 2007. The heirs to those killed accused former union council nazim Javed Iqbal and his brothers Ansar, Khalid Husain, Nasir, Tariq and Asif of the murders. Later, a police investigation declared Iqbal and his brothers ‘innocent’.
DIRECTIVE: The district and sessions judge has taken note of the use of magistracy powers by naib courts of judicial magistrates. He has directed judicial magistrates to decide themselves if they should seek police record in bail cases instead of allowing their naib courts to do so.
In a circular issued to judicial magistrates on Thursday, the judge directed them to stop this practice otherwise it would be considered that naib courts were doing with the consent of judicial magistrates.
