A special anti-terrorism court has indicted 32 workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) including Haleem Adil Sheikh, Khurram Sher Zaman and Raja Azhar in the third case of May 9 incident. The court summoned witnesses after the accused denied the charges.
The case was registered by the Ferozabad police. The accused include Haleem Adil Sheikh, Khurram Sher Zaman, Raja Azhar, Faheem Khan, Alamgir Khan and others. According to the prosecution, the accused damaged government and private property, raised slogans against the state and provoked people against the state.
Fraud with Chinese company
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has approved the bail applications of three accused involved in a case of fraud committed against a Chinese company. The court granted bail to Javed Mehmood, Syed Zeeshan Bilgrami, and Muhammad Khalid, directing each to submit surety bonds of Rs300,000.
The petitioners' lawyer argued that the Banking Court had rejected their bail plea in December 2024, however, that the accused had no involvement in the fraud and that there was no direct evidence against them.
According to FIA officials, the accused were arrested by the Corporate Crime Circle for allegedly defrauding the Chinese company of Rs113.9 million. The case was registered based on a complaint by Ms. Corrine Chen, an importer from the Chinese company. As per the agreement, the Pakistani company was supposed to export 1,500 metric tons of chrome ore. On February 11, a container was shipped from Karachi Port to China, but instead of chrome ore, it was found filled with dirt, stones, and gravel.
Killing of Rangers personnel
A two-member bench of the Sindh High Court, headed by Justice Omar Sial has issued notices to the Special Prosecutor Rangers in response to an appeal filed by Obaid alias K2 against his sentence in a case related to the murder of a Rangers personnel. The suspect was arrested from the MQM headquarters - Nine Zero.
The appellant's lawyer argued that Obaid was sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1998 case in his absence. The court remarked that the accused had fired and killed the young personnel and questioned why he should be released. The court observed that the accused was a dangerous individual, and it would be better for him to remain in jail. The appellant's lawyer contended that the accused had been acquitted in other cases and was only serving jail time in this single case.
The court asked the state prosecutor if the accused could be acquitted in this case as well, since he had been acquitted in other cases.
The appellant's lawyer pointed out that the anti-terrorism provisions under which the retrial was conducted were enforced after the case was initially registered in 1998-the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Act came into effect in 2001. Obaid alias K-2 was arrested in 2015, but his arrest was shown later in the case record. The defence pleaded that the accused should be given the benefit of Section 382 CrPC from the date of his actual arrest.
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