Magsi – a heavyset bald man – sat in court with the two men who are also accused in the case. Several other men who were initially implicated in the attack, which left 13 people dead, have reportedly been released. The First Information Report of the case was filed under sections of the Pakistan Penal Code dealing with charges of murder, attempted murder, abetment and extortion.
Special Public Prosecutor Abdul Maroof conducted the examination in chief of the witness, an officer from the Pak Colony police station who was deputed to examine the bodies at the Civil hospital morgue on October 19, 2010. He examined five of the eight bodies in the morgue that evening and produced the inquest report.
The police officer told the court that he was at home on October 19. “I received the information at about 6:30 pm that six or seven people had been killed and injured after unidentified people shot at them in Shershah,” the officer testified. He was told to go to Civil hospital to examine the bodies.
“I found eight bodies in the morgue,” the officer recounted, and then detailed taking permission for the post-mortem reports and the process of handing the bodies over to the families.
The case was adjourned and will next be heard on June 26, when the defence counsel will cross-examine the witness.
On October 19, 2010, 13 workers and owners of shops in the Shershah scrap market were killed when gunmen on motorcycles opened indiscriminate fire. Six shopkeepers were injured in the attack.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2012.
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