RAWALPINDI, Oct 23: An anti terrorism court here on Thursday directed the Adiala Jail superintendent to explain as to why a man accused of being a would-be suicide bomber was not produced in the court, and directed the prison authorities to produce the accused in the court on November 3, the next hearing date. ATC No. II Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahot put off the hearing after the Wah police sought more time to complete their investigation and to submit the charge sheet against the accused, Hameedullah Mehsud, who was arrested by the police on August 21 soon after the twin suicide attacks outside the Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) in Wah Cantonment.The fatal blasts killed more than 70 people and wounded over 100 others. Shortly after the bombings, a suicide vest was recovered by the police from the toilet of a nearby mosque and Hameedullah was arrested.
Police registered a criminal case against unknown persons under sections 302 (murder), 324 (attempted murder), 435 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage), 436 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house, etc.) 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), sections 3 and 4 of the explosive act and section 7 of the terrorism act.
So far the investigators have learnt the names of the bombers that carried out the suicide attacks. They were identified as Murad and Sowrat Khan, while the name of the fourth would-be suicide bomber was Bakhtiar.
Acting on the information obtained from Hameedullah, the police also recovered suicide vests, hand grenades and other explosives from Akora Khattak in Nowshera district on August 25 and a case was registered against him with the area police.
It may be mentioned here that the jail authorities had written a letter to City Police Officer (CPO) Rao Iqbal to arrange extra police escort for the accused supervised by an officer not less than the rank of DSP for his production in the court.
The jail authorities warned that the accused was involved in terrorism case and if he suffered injuries or managed to escape on way to or from the court, they would not be responsible.
Meanwhile, an additional district and sessions judge (ASJ) directed the SHO Waris Khan police to file his comments in response to a petition filed by a woman, who alleged that she and her other relatives were falsely implicated in a case at the behest of Waris Khan Circle DSP.
The judge asked the SHO to file his comments on October 25 over the petition of Fauzia Yasir, who claimed that the area police on October 18 entered her house in Muslim Town where she lived with her mother, husband and other relatives and ransacked the house without any search warrants.
Making DSP Shahid Yosuf, the SHO and a sub-inspector of the Waris Khan police respondents, the petitioner through her attorney, Tariq Pervaiz Janjua, said the raiding party was led by the DSP and they registered a case on the charges of running a brothel, besides looting cash from her house.
The woman maintained in her petition that her husband himself called the police as some dacoits looted gold and other jewellery from their house but police implicated them in a false case. She said a civil magistrate had discharged them from the false case on October 19 when police sought judicial custody for them.