The police presented M before a district and sessions court and secured a daylong remand.
The woman who told the police about the murder of a banker in Clifton was arrested on charges that she was constantly changing her statements.
M* went to the police earlier in June and told them about the murder of a 33-year-old former banker, Faisal Nabi. She accused award-winning filmmaker Mansoor Mujahid and his friend, A, of killing Faisal.
“She has been taken into custody for constantly changing her statements,” said the officer investigating the case, Chaudhry Saleem. M was included in the list of witnesses but when she started misleading the police, she was arrested and included as a suspect in the case, he added.
“Besides her differing statements, she was with the suspects for over 16 hours.”
The police presented M before a district and sessions court and secured a daylong remand. The court also extended the physical custody of Mujahid and his female friend, A, for one day.
The police investigators looking into the murder of the former banker have also inserted sections of the stricter anti-terror law in the case. Saleem said that the police added section 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act (ATA), 1997, and would present the suspects in an anti-terrorism court for further proceedings.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 1st, 2013.
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This is not a simple and common murder as you put it....This has EVERYTHING to do with Terrorism... They threw acid on his face, then shot him in the neck, then shot him again, then proceeded with mutilating his body for 15 hours... This act was barbaric, it has incited a great deal of unrest within the community and the act in itself as barbaric as it was falls firmly within the realms of what is legally defined under Pakistan's constitution as an Act of Terror.
Why is the government using anti-terrorism courts for common murder which has nothing to do with terrorism?
Seems that the film-mamker is indeed powerful.