Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso of the ATC-I handed over the suspects to the police on physical remand till Aug 30. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday extended the physical custody remand of the nine suspects in cases pertaining to Safari Park encounter - where two police officials were gunned down and several others were injured.
The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) police produced the suspects, Abdul Ghaffar, Mohabbat Ali, Abdul Malik, Ahmed, Imtiaz, Ranjhan, Imran, Samiullah and Allah Wadayo, before the court and sought their custody. At the court, Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso of the ATC-I handed over the suspects to the police on physical remand till August 30.
The investigating officer told the court that the investigation of the case was transferred to the SIU on government’s instructions. While requesting the court to extend remand, the officer said that the SIU needed time to go through the case and investigate it further.
Earlier on, an FIR No. 544/2013, was registered under sections 148 (rioting, in possession of weapons), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 302 (punishment for premeditated murder), 324 (attempt to commit murder), 353 (criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with section 7 of the Anti-terrorism Act at the Gulistan-i-Jauhar police station.
The suspects were also booked under section 23-A of the Sindh Arms Ordinance for carrying unlicensed weapons at the time of their arrest. The cases, No. 545 to 555, have been registered against them.
According to the prosecution, DSP Qasim Ghauri and ASI Mohammad Asif were killed and five other police officers had sustained bullet wounds during a five-hour long shooting with the suspects in and around Safari Park on August 15. The police had arrested the nine suspects after the encounter and recovered illicit weapons from their possession, the prosecution said. It added that their three accomplices, identified as Zaman Shah, Amir Bukhsh Chachar and Umaid Ali, were killed during the shoot-out.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 27th, 2013.
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