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ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) will announce verdict on the bail plea of a suspect, Moazzam Ali, currently standing trial in the Imran Farooq murder case on Monday (today).
The bench comprising Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi and Justice Athar Minallah had reserved the verdict on June 1 after both the parties concluded their arguments on the bail application.
Ali through his counsel, Mansoor Afridi, had moved bail application after an anti-terrorism court (ATC) had dismissed his plea.
In his arguments, Afridi said that the FIA did not have an iota of evidence against Ali and delay in registering the case after five years was not explained.
With all efforts of the Scotland Yard, the MQM chief, Altaf Hussain, and others have not yet been arrested in the case, he said, adding that it only happened in Pakistan where anyone was named in the FIR or charge sheet and subsequently put behind the bars.
Afridi said that the interim charge sheet submitted before the ATC did not constitute any offence against Ali.
The FIA has cited 11 witnesses in the report, he said, and none of them had anything to disclose relating to the charges of conspiracy or abetment against Ali.
The standing counsel of the FIA, Khawaja Imtiaz, informed the court that two other suspects in the case — Khalid Shamim and Syed Mohsin Ali — had implicated Moazzam in the case during their confessional statements recorded before a magistrate.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 13th, 2016.
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