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Qadri was not forced to confess Taseer assassination: Magistrate
Rawalpindi Magistrate testifies in court, says Qadri was not forced to confess.
The hearing of the case has been adjourned till May 14. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Magistrate on Saturday testified in court that Mumtaz Qadri had confessed to the murder of Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer.
During the hearing of the case, which resumed at the Anti-Terrorism Court, the city magistrate said that Qadri had not been forced to confessing the crime and that his handcuffs had been removed when he had given the statement.
The hearing of the case has been adjourned till May 14.
The self-confessed assassin of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer had been formally indicted by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) on February 14. During the course of hearing, which was held behind closed doors, Malik Mumtaz Qadri confessed to killing the former governor before Justice Raja Ikhlaq Ahmed.
According to the three-page charge-sheet submitted before the court, Qadri has been booked under sections 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act and 302/109 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of Taseer’s son Shehryar Taseer in an FIR registered at the Kohsar police station.
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Hang him..what are courts waiting for? Where is law?Recommend
legal procedures are necessaryRecommend
If the court decides to hang him, all hell will break loose. :( Recommend
He is a very sick man!!!!
But in todays Pakistan , nothing will happen to this guy, for the crime he commited!!
The Judiciary does not have a will to actually put him on trial and sentence him!!!
All these appearances at Courts are purely for show!!!
Remind me that I was wrong , if this person is sentenced for killing an unarmed man, who he was suppose to protect!!!!!! Recommend
i hate this face of ignorance. can you have news about him without his picture, please? I hope he gets death punishment. hang himRecommend
Hang this sick, twisted criminal immediately. What is the court waiting for?!!!!!!!Recommend
O no way! We shouldn’t hang him what are you guys talking about. Do you love Prophet Mohammad ASWS more or Salman “Malun” Taseer People.?? Absolutely noRecommend
With all those witnesses to the murder,should magistrates be convincing the courts of the confession which he had so proudly announced to anyone and everyone. THE DELAYS in courts are due to anglo-saxon procedures which dont suit our psyche.We need to change procedures so that the need for paid/ professional (Sultani) witnesses is finished and quick and fair decisions are dealt.The actual days of work in courts is not more than a week for the most intricate case yet it takes a lifetime, sometime more without decisions.The Swatis are still waiting for shariah courts because of the percieved swift working not because Pakistan has any law against Islam.Wake up rulers!Recommend
People who kill in the name of their distorted religious believe also deserve the same treatment as their victim. Death by firing squad.Recommend
he is a mullah – totally jahil – of course he will be releasedRecommend