SUKKUR, April 26: All four accused of the Jeay Sindh Quami Mahaz (JSQM) and one of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) in the Sukkur bomb blast case were acquitted by the Judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court-2, Riaz Rajput, for absence of sufficient evidence on Friday.

Those acquitted include a central leader of the JSQM, Lala Suhail Pathan, Saeed alias Bably, Rizwan Sukkurwala, Mohammed Ayub, and Irfan of the MQM.

The learned judge said that the police failed to provide sufficient evidence against all the five accused. Therefore, all five are acquitted of the charges.

It may be recalled that a bomb blast had occurred in the Sessions Court Sukkur in 1998 in which three people including a police constable had been killed and ten others injured.

Police arrested all the five people allegedly involved in the bomb blast and produced a chargesheet before the Anti-Terrorism Court.