KARACHI, Aug 19: The Sindh High Court was informed on Thursday that the suicide bomber, according to eyewitnesses, had resemblance with Mohammad Ali Khatri and blood samples of her mother and two brothers have been sent to Lahore for DNA test.

SHC's division bench, comprising Chief Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad and Justice Syed Zawar Hussain Jaffery, was hearing a constitutional petition filed by Ms Gul Bano in which she alleged that her son, Mohammad Ali Khtari, is in illegal custody of police, which are not disclosing the whereabouts of the detenue.

When the matter was taken up on Thursday, the Additional Advocate General, Sarwar Khan, placed the statement of SSP Zone-I (investigation) Manzoor Ahmed Mughal which stated that blood samples of Ms Gul Bano and her two sons Gul Jameel and Feroz Hasan were obtained and sent to director, centre for applied molecular biology in Lahore along with pieces of suicide bomber's body for DNA test and the report is awaited.

It was stated that matter pertains to bomb blast incident at Imambargah Ali Raza in which 25 people were killed and 37 were injured. Police arrested one accused Gul Hasan, activist of banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, who during interrogation disclosed that he had prepared Mohammad Ali to carry out suicide bombing in the Imambargah.

He stated that earlier they failed to execute their plans at Imambargahs in Malir and Gulshan-i-Iqbal. The court, after the statement by the police fixed the matter for a date to be fixed by the office. -PPI