Teenage rivalry: Suspect Shoaib granted bail in Hamza Ahmed’s murder case
Court denies bail to security company supervisor, suspect’s driver.
Hamza was shot dead in Karachi on April 28. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
One of the four accused in Hamza Ahmed’s murder case, Shoaib Naveed, was granted bail on Wednesday.
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.
One of the four accused in Hamza Ahmed’s murder case, Shoaib Naveed, was granted bail on Wednesday.
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.