KARACHI, June 19: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was acquitted on Wednesday in a murder case by an anti-terrorism court.
The ATC-4, headed by Judge Khan Pervaiz Chang, exonerated Waseem Javed alias Waseem Tunda from the charges of killing a police constable and injuring a passerby as the prosecution could not establish its case against him.
According to prosecution, the Muttahida workers ambushed a police mobile on Dec 27, 1997 killing Constable Imtiaz and injuring a passing by child, Arif.
The same court had earlier sentenced another Muttahida worker, Shabbir Ahmed alias Shabbir Qasai, to life in the same case. The accused was also sentenced to a 10-year term for injuring the passerby. A two-year term was handed down to Shabbir for committing a shootout with the police to prevent their arrest.
However, the convict challenged his conviction by the ATC-4 in the Sindh High Court, which set aside all sentenced awarded to him by the trial court’s, and ordered the acquittal of the accused.
CONVICTED: The district and sessions judge, South, Agha Rafique Ahmed, sentenced two robbers to suffer rigorous imprisonment for seven years.
The judge also imposed a fine of Rs20,000 each on Arif Masih and Farooq Masih, who had looted cash from the office of Muhammed Mairaj within the limits of Garden police on November 15, last year.
The judge also ordered that the defaulter on the payment of the fine would have to undergo an additional three-month term of simple imprisonment.
ACQUITTED: The additional district and sessions judge, East, Syed Sagher Hussain Zaidi, acquitted a worker of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi) in a case pertaining to creating disturbances and violent activities.
Afzal Hussain, prosecuted for resorting to violent activities on July 17, 1998 in Korangi, was exonerated from all charges due to want of incriminating evidence against him.
The same court acquitted a man, prosecuted for committing robbery in 1999 within the limits of Al-Fallah police.
He was acquitted as the prosecution could not bring on record incriminating evidence against him.