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KARACHI, Oct 15: District and Sessions Judge, Central, Syed Pir Ali Shah on Friday summoned Dr Sohrab Anwar, Medical Superintendent of the Services Hospital, Karachi , and convener of medical board which examined Asif Ali Zardari, an accused in the murder case of Justice Nizam Ahmed and his son Nadeem Ahmed.
When the case was called before the court, which is holding trial inside the central prison here, the medical board's report was submitted to it. The board had evaluated the treatment to be provided to the accused at Ziauddin Medical University Hospital. It suggested MRI and eight-week hydrotropy.
Shahadat Awan, counsel for accused, moved an application before the court to order the state for providing medical treatment as advised by the board. Special Public Prosecutor Maula Bux Bhatti also moved an application requesting the court to call Dr Sohrab to inform the court that what if treatment suggested was not provided; whether it would adversely affect the accused or not.
The trial court, allowing the plea, summoned Dr Sohrab on October 18 and put off the case till that date. Justice Nizam and his son Nadeem Ahmed were killed in 1996 allegedly in a dispute over a plot adjacent to the Awami Markaz. The other accused include Javed Akhtar Pirzada who jumped bail, Baber Sindhu and Bilal Shaikh.
MIR CASE: District and Sessions Judge, East, Zafar Ahmed Khan Sherwani on Friday adjourned hearing of an acquittal plea filed by Asif Ali Zardari in the murder case of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and seven others till Saturday.
Barrister Azizullah K. Shaikh, counsel for applicant, was on his feet when court rose for the day. The counsel had earlier maintained that his client was implicated in the case for political vendetta, and that since 1996, Asif Zardari had been in detention.
Referring to the main plea of medical evidence, which came to the fore after the prosecution examined all the medico legal officers, including the senior MLO who conducted autopsy of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, Barrister Shaikh submitted that all medical experts could found only one view that the deceased could not utter words attributed to him by investigators/police as he was fighting for his life after having been critically injured. "There is no evidence at all against the accused," he maintained. -APP
