Thunder, Surphata, Gitta, Nagori walk free in murder case
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The Special Anti-Terrorism Court (SATC) has acquitted Ali Surphata, Arif Thunder, Adnan Gitta and Naeem Nagori, who were arrested from MQM Nine Zero Center on charges of murder of a transporter in 2015.
Court ruled that the prosecution failed to prove bring up incriminating evidence and eyewitnesses the case against accused arrested guilty of being involved in the MQM's Nine Zero Centre. The court acquitted Amir Sarphata, Arif Thunder, Adnan Gitta and Naeem Nagori. It ruled that the accused should be released if they were not named in any other case.
According to the police, transporter Juma Khan was shot dead on May 8, 2012. The suspects were arrested in 2015 after an operation at the MQM headquarters in Nine Zero. The accused had revealed during the interrogation that they had committed the murder on the orders of the then MQM top leadership and that the victim had links with the banned peace committee - a group of alleged gangsters of Lyari.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 17th, 2022.