Taxi driver’s case: Wife files application to withdraw case against Rangers officials

In her application, Dua stated that she has forgiven the suspects.

KARACHI:

In a surprising move, the wife of a taxi driver filed an application in a district and sessions court on Tuesday to withdraw the case against the Rangers’ officials who had allegedly shot her husband dead in an extrajudicial manner.

The 36-year-old taxi driver, Mureed Ali alias Murad Ali, was allegedly shot by Rangers near his Gulistan-e-Jauhar residence for reportedly not stopping his vehicle after the personnel signalled him to do so on July 16.

The case regarding the murder of Ali, the father of two, was registered against the Rangers personnel at the Gulistan-e-Jauhar police station on the compliant of his widow, Dua.

On Tuesday, Dua moved an application along with an affidavit before a judicial magistrate in district East, Erum Jahangir, saying therein that she wanted to take back the case against the officials.



In the application to withdraw the case, Dua stated that she had forgiven the suspects in the name of Allah and didn’t want to proceed any further.

Judge Jahangir while turning down her request said that the case has been transferred to an anti-terrorism court after the sections of the anti-terror law were added to it and she should contact the court concerned now for withdrawing the case.

In the previous hearing, the suspects, Ghulam Rasool, Barkat Ali, Waqar and Qadeer, were sent to jail on judicial remand and the investigating officer was directed to submit a charge sheet in the case by an anti-terrorism court.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 21^st, 2013.