RAWALPINDI, Jan 6: An anti-terrorism court here on Tuesday issued notices to station house officer (SHO) R A Bazaar directing him to produce the record in the police inspector murder case as an accused has moved the court seeking bail.

ATC-I Judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman directed the SHO to produce the record on January 13 after Hammmad Abassi sought the bail on the pretext of delay in the trial.

The accused maintained in the bail application that he was arrested in March 2005 in connection with the case registered on July 10, 2004 but he had seen no headway in the trial.

There are seven other accused Eid Muhammad, Tahir, Imran, Awais, Mohammad Younas, Arshad Satti and Usman alias Asif Chotta in the case and one of them is in Lahore jail and is yet to be transferred to Rawalpindi.

He maintained that he had been in the jail for the last four years without any progress in the case and sought bail on the ground of justice delayed is justice denied.

In another bail application the court directed the SHOs of Secretariat, Abpara and Civil Lines Police stations to produce the record by January 21 in four different cases registered against Tahir Ali.

Tahir allegedly involved in the terrorism cases of planning attacks on Parliament, offices of a secret agency in Islamabad and on Army House in Rawalpindi but he has denied the allegations and sought bail on the grounds the case was registered in 2006 but no progress had been made.

Meanwhile, the figures obtained from two terrorism courts revealed that 126 new terrorism cases were referred to the courts that cover the five districts, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Attock, Chakwal and Jhelum.

As many as 147 cases were carried from the year 2007 and the courts had decided 171 cases while 52 cases are pending with the courts.