KARACHI: Bail plea rejected

Published January 21, 2007

KARACHI, Jan 20: The additional district and sessions judge, South, Sher Bano Karim, on Saturday dismissed the bail application of an accused in an electric wire theft case. Rahim Shah, who had earlier obtained pre-arrest bail on Dec 30, 2006 had come to the court for the bail confirmation. However, the judge cancelled his pre-arrest bail and he was immediately arrested. He was booked by the Boat Basin police on the complaint of Nasir Khan, contractor of the underground cable operation, KESC. The complainant, represented by Shahadat Awan, alleged that the accused was involved in theft of 328 metre cable worth millions of rupees.— A Reporter