HYDERABAD, June 30: District and sessions judge Zaheeruddin S. Leghari on Wednesday rejected the bail application of former Sindh minister Qabool Mohammad Shah in a murder case.

The case against the accused had been registered by the Baldia police following the murder of Fateh Jakhrani, son of the late sessions judge of Nawabshah, Bakht Ali Jakhrani, on May 30.

A highway department official, Qazi Talmizuddin, who had suffered injuries in the incident, had lodged the case. Mr Shah also lodged a counter case after he was apprehended in Karachi by the Baldia police while he was admitted to a private hospital because of injuries caused in the incident.

The case against Mr Talmizuddin has been disposed of. Mr Shah has been remanded in judicial custody but he is under treatment at a hospital.

CONVICTED: An Anti-Terrorism Court judge here on Wednesday sentenced three persons to life imprisonment in a kidnapping-for-ransom case of two persons. The convicts, Pathan Khoso, Mohabbat Khoso and Sarwar Arain, will have to pay a fine of Rs200,000 each and in case of default, they will undergo another one year imprisonment.

However, the judge, Syed Ali Ashraf Shah, exonerated them in another case registered against them under section 13-D of the Arms Ordinance. Four co-accused were also exonerated in the kidnapping case.

Javed Iqbal Arain, brother of People's Party Parliamentarians MPA Tariq Masood Arain, and Nazeer Arain had been kidnapped on March 5, 1993, in the Nawabshah district.

ARRESTED: Police have arrested an alleged narcotics peddler, Saadullah, a resident of Quetta, in the Hussainabad police station jurisdiction. Police said the accused had been found in possession of 23 kilograms of charas, 10 kilograms of opium and one kilogramme of heroine near the railway line, Auto Bhan Road.

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