Notices issued: Brother asks court for orders to reinvestigate MQM activist’s murder
The bench issued notices to the respondents for July 25.
Lawyer pleaded the court direct the police high-ups to hold a re-investigation into the case through a joint investigations team. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday issued notices to the provincial home secretary, inspector general of police and his subordinates on a petition seeking a re-investigation of the murder of a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist in 2012.
Mehboob Ali had cited the provincial home secretary, the police chief and others as respondents for not registering his brother’s murder case under the anti-terrorism law. He told the judges that his 50-year-old brother, Rao Gulsher, who was associated with the MQM, was murdered for not paying extortion in Gulshan-e-Zahoor on May 12, 2012.
He recalled that Brigade police had lodged the FIR, in which the Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 was also included. But the investigation officer later submitted the final charge sheet before the district and sessions judge, East, in which section seven was excluded.
The murder case falls within the ambit of an act of terrorism, insisted his lawyer. He pleaded the court direct the police high-ups to hold a re-investigation into the case through a joint investigations team and include the relevant terrorism charges.
Headed by Justice Ahmed Ali M Sheikh, the bench issued notices to the respondents for July 25.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 25th, 2013.
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday issued notices to the provincial home secretary, inspector general of police and his subordinates on a petition seeking a re-investigation of the murder of a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist in 2012.
Mehboob Ali had cited the provincial home secretary, the police chief and others as respondents for not registering his brother’s murder case under the anti-terrorism law. He told the judges that his 50-year-old brother, Rao Gulsher, who was associated with the MQM, was murdered for not paying extortion in Gulshan-e-Zahoor on May 12, 2012.
He recalled that Brigade police had lodged the FIR, in which the Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 was also included. But the investigation officer later submitted the final charge sheet before the district and sessions judge, East, in which section seven was excluded.
The murder case falls within the ambit of an act of terrorism, insisted his lawyer. He pleaded the court direct the police high-ups to hold a re-investigation into the case through a joint investigations team and include the relevant terrorism charges.
Headed by Justice Ahmed Ali M Sheikh, the bench issued notices to the respondents for July 25.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 25th, 2013.