KARACHI, July 12: The Judicial Magistrate, West, Mohammed Sohail, granted bail to the interned nazim of the Orangi in a case pertaining to an attack on the house of acting town nazim.

The magistrate gave Mohammed Shahid Alam, better known as Guddu Bihari, bail in the sum of Rs50,000. The police had booked the Orangi town Nazim, belonging to the Pakistan People's Party on the complaint of Mohammed Younus, brother of the acting town nazim.

According to FIR, the Orangi Town Nazim, with his accomplices raided the house of the acting nazim. The attackers fired several shots and fled. No one was, however, injured in the attack.

The town nazim was initially arrested in late February by the Anti-Corruption Establishment. He was booked in five different cases since his arrest. However, he got bail in all cases.

CASE AGAINST COPS: Two police inspectors, booked for implicating a colleague, were given in police custody for interrogation till Wednesday. The two police officials were arrested last week after an additional district and sessions court denied them pre-arrest bail.

The two inspectors, along with others police officials of the Anti-Car-Lifting Cell, were booked in three different cases on the orders of the court. The others named in the FIRs were SP Abdus Sattar Detho, DSP Javed Baloch and DSP Kher Mohammed Baloch of prosecution branch.

The court had ordered registration of cases against them on an application of ASI Ameer Gondal, who was arrested and booked in a false case by the ACLC men in 2002. The wife of the ASI moved an application to the Sindh police chief seeking justice.

She alleged that her husband was booked in the false case after he refused to pay a bribe of Rs100,000 to the ACLC staff. The case against the ASI was withdrawn after a thorough inquiry conducted by the crime branch on the orders of the Sindh police chief.

After withdrawal of the case, the victim ASI moved an application to the court for getting the ACLC men booked. The judge granted his application and ordered the registration of FIRs against the ACLC men. While remanding the two inspectors to police custody, the judge also ordered the investigation officer to arrest the SP, DSP and the PDSP.

MURDER CASE: The additional district and sessions judge, South, Syed Saeed Hasan deferred the judgment in a murder case against the younger brother-in-law of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

The judge, who had earlier reserved the judgment on June 19, fixed Wednesday for the pronouncement of judgment. Nasir Hussain and his driver Niaz Hussain have been prosecuted for the murder of Ali Ahmed Soomro, who was an adviser to late chief minister Jam Sadiq Ali.

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