KARACHI: Eyewitnesses in the Rangers shooting case said on Wednesday that they had not seen the victim Sarfaraz Shah commit any crime in the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto park where he was fatally shot by Rangers personnel.
These statements were made in a Karachi court before the judicial magistrate of Nadeem Badar Qazi where two eyewitnesses recorded statement 164 in the case.
The witnesses said park security official Afsar Khan had held the victim by the hair and handed him over to the Rangers personnel and Rangers officer Shahid Zafar opened fire on him. They added that the boy was apologising and begging the rangers not to shoot him and that he was not snatching the gun from them.
The rangers were presented in the court amid tight security. Lawyers chanted slogans against the Rangers outside the court building demanding that they be hanged for killing the unarmed youth.
The Rangers have now been taken to an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) where they will be sent to jail custody or on physical remand.
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