Personal rivalry: Court grants bail to man in attempt to murder case

KARACHI:

A Malir district and sessions court has granted bail before arrest to a suspect in an attempt to murder case involving a workplace rivalry.

The district and sessions judge, Muhammad Yamin, allowed the bail application of Ayoub Hussain as he did not deem the version of the prosecution as strong enough, said Hussains’ lawyer Muhammad Akhtar Jamal.

The complainant, Rustam Khan, had stated in the FIR that he was shot and injured by two motorcyclists near the Shumaila School on Adamjee Road in the first week of August. He was attacked at the behest of Hussain, as they had quarrelled a few days before the incident at their workplace. A case (407/2012) under Sections 324 (attempted murder), 109 (abetment) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code was registered at the Quaidabad police station. Jamal claimed, however, that Khan, who works at the textile mill’s production counter, shot and injured himself to implicate Hussain and extort money from him. Hussain, the in-charge of the mill’s stitching unit, was implicated in the case as Khan had personal enmity with one of his relatives, it was stated in the bail plea.

“Hussain was at work on the day of the incident which can be verified through the factory’s attendance record,” Jamal stated in the application. He also submitted Hussain’s office timings of the day when the alleged incident took place. The bail was set at Rs50,000 and the suspect was called for confirmation on August 31.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 30^th, 2012.