ATC convicts six men to life for judges’ kidnapping

Additional sessions judges Farooq Ahmad Channa and Abdul Wahab were kidnapped in December, 2004


Our Correspondent December 10, 2018
After their release, a petition was filed in the Sindh High Court in which the judges claimed that Shikarpur police had collected Rs8 million for payment of ransom. PHOTO: FILE

HYDERABAD: Fourteen years after two additional district and sessions judges were kidnapped from Shikarpur district, an anti-terrorism court in Sukkur district convicted six men for committing the crime.

The additional sessions judges Farooq Ahmad Channa and Abdul Wahab Abbasi, who were then posted in Shikarpur, were kidnapped in December, 2004. They remained hostage for around two months in the forest before they reportedly paid ransom for their release. The anti-terrorism court judge Syed Shakil Haider Shah, who announced the judgment in Sukkur Central Jail, convicted the six men with life imprisonment besides fine of Rs200,000 on each. The convicts include Ghulam Hussain Shar, Haider Bux Shar, Miraza Kharos, Gul Sher Kharos, Mir Muhammad Kharos and Abdul Hameed Qureshi. Qureshi and Mir Muhammad were on bail prior to the order while the remaining were in the prison.

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After their release, a petition was filed in the Sindh High Court in which the judges claimed that Shikarpur police had collected Rs8 million for payment of ransom. But, they claimed, their families paid the amount of ransom and that collected amount was embezzled by the district police.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 10th, 2018.

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