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KARACHI, Oct 18: An anti-terrorism court in Karachi issued on Monday show-cause notice to the jail superintendent for his failure to produce the accused in the Haideri Mosque bomb blast case.
Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch of the ATC-5 adjourned the hearing till Oct 20, ordering the jailer to explain the reasons why the accused was not produced in the court despite his production order.
More than 40 people were killed while several others injured when powerful bomb explosions occurred at Imambargah Haideri in Sindh Madressatul Islam on May 7 and Imambargah Ali Reza on M A Jinnah Road on May 31.
As many as 26 people were killed and over 40 others injured on May 7 when a suicide bomber blew himself inside the Haideri mosque on the premises of Sindh Madressatul Islam.
Gul Hasan, the alleged mastermind of the blasts, was arrested on June 13 within the limits of the Mithadar police. He is stated to have planned the attacks with absconding accused who included Asif Chuto and Mufti Obaid.
DOCTORS CASE: Judge Feroze Mehmood Bhatti of the ATC-2 put off the hearing of the case against two doctor brothers as the defence counsel did not turn up.
The judge, who is conducting the trial inside the Central Prison, fixed Tuesday for the next hearing after he was told that defence counsel Ilyas Khan did not come to the court.
Dr Akmal Waheed, a cardiologist, and his younger brother Dr Arshad Waheed, an expert in kidney diseases, have been charged with financing, harbouring and treating the activists of the Jundullah.
The case against the two brothers was registered by the Gulshan-i-Iqbal police for financing, assisting, harbouring and treating the activists of the banned Jundullah. The two brothers were also charged with sending people to Wana for terrorist training.
It was alleged that the two brothers sent Jundullah activists, Shahzad Ahmed Bajwa and Mohammad Qasim to Wana for getting training from Obaidullah, the brother of Nek Mohammed.
AFREEN CASE: Mohammad Bux Umrani and his wife Zahida, who are nominated in the murder case of Afreen Baig, were remanded to the custody of investigation police till Oct 25 and 21 by the Judicial Magistrate South, Rajesh Chandar Rajput on Monday, adds APP.
Earlier, both the accused were produced before the court after they were brought from Pindi Bhattian where they took refuge in the house of a relative of Zahida.
Umrani, driver and Zahida maid of Afreen Baig, strangled her to death on Oct 14 and disappeared after encashing a cheque of Rs208,000, jewellry and other precious articles, clothes etc.
The body of the victim was recovered from a bathtub. Her autopsy revealed torture marks.
