KARACHI, Jan 17: An additional district and sessions judge, Central, Mohammed Riyaz Shaikh, acquitted on Thursday two workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in an attempt to murder case.

The case against Mohammed Arif and Mohammed Shakil was registered in 1995 by the New Karachi police on the complaint of then SHO inspector Taufeeq Zahid.

The police official had alleged that the two men had opened fire at him in a bid to kill him.

The judge, however, acquitted the Muttahida workers of the charge as the prosecution could not prove its case against them.

CONVICTED: The same court sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murder.

Accused Mohammed Hanif, who had stabbed Mohammed Iqbal to death on December 1, 1992, was also ordered to pay Rs300,000 to the victim’s family as Diyat (compensation).

In case of default on the payment the convict would have to undergo an additional two years’ RI.

The special anti-narcotics court, headed by Judge Ali Nawaz Pirzada, sentenced a drug trafficker to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment.

Accused Alam Sher Khan, arrested on July 13, 2000 with 1.2 kg charas in Nazimabad, was also fined Rs100,000 and the judge ordered that the convict would have to undergo an additional one-year RI term if he failed to pay the fine.

The accused was convicted after he confessed to the offence in the court.