ATA sections to be included in NICVD shooting case
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A local court directed on Wednesday the police to include sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), 1997, in the case pertaining to the shooting of a doctor by a Counter-Terrorism Department official.
Hearing the case at Karachi City Court, the South judicial magistrate remarked that the incident had created chaos at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), where the doctor was on duty at the time of the shooting.
The court directed the investigation officer to include ATA sections in the case and reach out to an anti-terrorism court for the trial.
The CTD official, Kamran, had opened fire in the NICVD emergency ward on June 17, injuring Dr Fahad, after he was reportedly denied medication by another doctor during a previous visit to the hospital.
Illegal money transfers
Another court handed over two persons, accused of making illegal money transfers through hundi and hawala - an alternative, informal system that operates parallel to traditional banking channels - under the guise of running an import export business, to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a four-day physical remand.
The accused, Arshad alias Dumba and Danish, were presented before the East judicial magistrate by FIA officials during the hearing at Karachi City Court.
At the hearing, the officials told the court that TT pistols, cheque books, Rs700,000 in cash and evidence of money transfers via hundi and hawala were found in the accused’s possession. Claiming that the suspects had been involved in illegal trade in China and Malaysia, they moved the court to grant their physical remand so they could be interrogated about their network and accomplices in Karachi.
The court accepted the officials’ request and sent the accused on a four-day physical remand.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 23rd, 2020.