KARACHI, June 5: An anti-terrorism court sent a complainant in a sectarian murder case to jail for four days for making a false statement in the court.

The case pertained to the killing of Kazim Hussain Jafferi on March 21, 2002, in an attack on his video shop in Mehmoodabad. Ataullah and Riaz are facing the charges.

Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch of the ATC-5, who is trying two workers of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi inside the Central Prison, sent Rizwan Ahmed to jail after he detracted from his earlier statement, incorporated in the FIR.

The U-turn in his statement surfaced during the cross- examination by defence counsel M. R. Syed when the complainant stated that the attackers' faces were muffled.

This was a major blow to the prosecution as it had already examined two eye-witnesses who had identified the two accused with their specific roles.

Public prosecutor Mazhar Qayyum submitted before the court that the complainant seemed to have won over the accused as they all were residents of the same vicinity.