Murder charges: ATC remands suspects into prison

Eyewitness identified both the suspects as the attackers and the weapon recovered from them also matched

KARACHI: The anti-terrorism court's administrative judge remanded on Monday two suspects to prison in a two-year-old murder case of two members of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, including a local leader.

The police investigators of the case presented Wajid and Adnan alias Burger before the judge and contended that they had sufficient evidence against the suspects for their alleged involvement in the double murder. Former PTI, South district, president Taufiq Hoti and Muhammad Arif were gunned down near Rehmania Masjid in Garden area in April, 2014 by unidentified men.

The police said the an eyewitness identified both the suspects as the attackers before a judicial magistrate and the weapon recovered from them also matched with the bullet shell found from the scene during a forensic examination.

The suspects are said to be former workers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, who are now associated with the Pak Sarzameen Party. Another suspect, Faisal alias Mama, is already in jail in this case.

The judge sought a charge-sheet against the suspects on the next hearing.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 3^rd, 2017.