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KARACHI:
Two policemen, who had performed the initial legal formalities and registered the FIR of Shahzeb Khan’s murder, recorded their testimonies before an Anti-Terrorism Court on Friday.
Judge Ghulam Mustafa Memon, who has so far recorded statements of nine out of 53 witnesses listed by prosecution, is hearing the case on a daily basis.
Shahzeb, 20, was shot dead in his car in December last year in Defence Housing Authority. Shahrukh Jatoi, his friend Siraj Talpur, Sajjad Talpur and their servant Ghulam Mustafa Lashari are facing trial for Shahzeb’s murder. On Friday, prosecution’s witness Sub-Inspector Mehmood told the judge that upon receiving information of the incident, he recorded it in the entry book (Roznamcha) between the night of December 24 and 25, 2012. The official recalled that later the victim’s father, DSP Aurangzeb Khan, turned up to register a FIR about his son’s murder. “I authored the FIR in the light of the complainant’s statement recorded under Section 154 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).” Another witness, SI Ghulam Yasin deposed that he reached the Ziauddin Hospital where he recorded the victim’s father’s statement. SI Yasin said all other legal formalities required under Section 174 CrPC were duly completed and the body was handed over to the family.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 16th, 2013.
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