Hamza was shot dead in Karachi on April 28. PHOTO: FILE
The judge, Tariq Mehmood Khoso, who is conducting the trial in the judicial complex (central prison), granted him bail against a surety bond of Rs500,000. Meanwhile, he denied bail to Idrees, the supervisor of the security company whose guard shot 16-year-old Hamza Ahmed in DHA on April 27. Shoaib’s driver, Shaukat, was also denied bail.
The judge confirmed, however, the pre-arrest interim bail of Shoaib’s father, Naveed Ahmed. The security guard, Amal Khan, who allegedly gunned down the victim, is still on the run.
Hamza’s father, Talib Hussain, who is the complainant of the case, registered the FIR for his son’s murder under sections 302 (punishment for premeditated murder) 114 (abettor present when offence is committed) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at Darakhshan police station.
Hussain stated that he was at home when one of his son’s friends asked him to come to South City Hospital, where Hamza was taken after he was shot and injured. When Hussain reached the hospital, the doctors informed him that Hamza had died because of bullet injuries to hischest. The police shifted the body to Jinnah hospital where the post-mortem was conducted.
In his statement, Hussain said that Hamza along with his friends had gone to cafe Downtown on Street No. 30, Khayaban-e-Seher, where he had got into an argument with Shoaib.
He further stated that Shoaib’s guard, Amal Khan, shot at Hamza, on Shoaib’s instigation, with an intention to kill him. Hamza sustained four bullet injuries on his chest.
Earlier, the Sindh health department had constituted a seven-member medical board to determine Shoaib’s age after a court ordered the ossification test. The board had declared that Shoaib is a minor.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 6th, 2013.
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in these days everyone taking corrupt money even our judges.Then how pakistan can progress in future.Might is right going on in Pkaistan.
@ DS N : Isn't the paid publicity for SHoaib on media and facebook not enough that you have to troll on all newspaper sites too?
@rubina:
it is so easy to create an ideal situation like that in your head , sadly this is not a scene from some action packed hollywood movie where things go in the exact order we would prefer them to go in. it is extremely natural for someone his age to react like that. you can NOT decide that his guilt based on how he panicked and was unable to keep his nerves together to do what we consider is right. i say this from personal experience and being an adult , when you see someone shot , you really do not know what to do next. he is just a child who panicked , things happen in split seconds. if you had ever witnessed a shooting , you would have understood. please do not accuse an innocent child , it is very wrong. so wrong. he is just a child after all.
@DS N: still if his guard was shotting Hamza shouldnt he have shouted to stop him andfurther on he should have called the police and tended to the victim but he got in the car with the guard and drove off. that means he was content with the actions of the guard
ET : doing a wonderful job at the one sided story telling again , as usual. utterly disgraceful journalism , i must say !
he is not a murderer , he is innocent until proven guilty. according to some of you low IQ dimwits, he was in "fake" prison with "fake" handcuffs and "fake" pictures and with "fake" marks on his hands.. so please refrain from making sweeping statements about what a "sad day it is in the history of pakistan" because the only thing sad here is your mental level.
I am very sad after hearing this news that murderer got bail.
What a sad day in the history of pakistani justice. A murderer walks free. Unbelievable!
I hope Judge Tariq Khoso does not have to loose his son in a similar manner and then see some one grant bail to his son's murderer.