PESHAWAR, Jan 5: An anti-terrorism court has acquitted a suspected militant in four cases of terrorism including beheading of a police constable and attack on police station and a security post.

The court presided over by Anwar Ali Khan observed that the prosecution failed to prove the cases against the accused, Qaiser Khan.

The said four cases had occurred in the jurisdiction of Matani police station in 2008. In the first case a police constable, Fakhr Zaman, was beheaded and his body was thrown in Matani area. Another case was about rockets attack on Matani police station whereas the third case was about destruction of a police post on Frontier Road. The fourth case was regarding attack on a telephone exchange.

The accused, a resident of Adezai Village in Matani, was later arrested and charged in the said cases.

Advocate Shan Asghar appeared for the accused and argued that these cases were of no evidence as no eyewitness had appeared to testify against the accused.

He contended that a person could not be convicted merely on the basis of rumours.

The counsel argued that the police had claimed that several militants were involved in these offences which mostly took place during nighttime and the attackers could not be recognised.

Moreover, he stated that the investigation officer had not sent the writing samples of the accused to an expert to prove that his writing resembled that of the chit, which was lying near the body of the slain cop.

He argued that the accused had been behind the bars for the last two years but the prosecution could not prove anything against him.