Man who threatened to bomb Taxila courts remanded

Officials claim suspect wanted to avoid his creditors

RAWALPINDI: A man who threatened to bomb the courts in Taxila two days ago has been arrested.

A local court on Thursday granted Taxila police five-days physical custody of the man. A senior police officer told The Express Tribune that initial investigations had revealed that Sajjad Ahmed worked on developing housing societies.



The police official further said that Ahmed owed large sums of money to a number of plot holders but he had no funds to settle the claims. With the plot holders demanding their money, Sajjad had asked them to visit the court complex in Taxila on July 24.

Trying to avoid the plot owners, he sent some threatening text messages some lawyers at the courts claiming that he would bomb the complex. The messages spread fear and panic, forcing officials to close down the court premises.



Police officials then tried to hunt the man who had sent the messages. They tracked the number through which the messages were sent to Ahmed’s cell phone. Officials arrested Ahmed and recovered the phone and SIM he had used. He was presented before Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC-I) Special Judge Muhammad Asghar on Thursday.

A Taxila police investigator told the court that they had booked Ahmed under section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act and section 25-D of the Telegraph Act for sending threatening messages to some lawyers working in the courts.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 28^th, 2017.