Hamza murder case: Allowing family’s plea for re-investigation, SHC fixes hearing for Oct 7
Father claims that IO did not produce video footages of the incident in the DHA.
"From the photographs taken during the postmortem, it was clear that there was a mark of a sharp-edged weapon on the face," Father Naveed Ahmed. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) allowed on Monday the application seeking urgent hearing of the petition requiring re-investigation into the Hamza Ahmed murder, and fixed October 7 the next date of hearing.
The 17-year-old O levels student was allegedly gunned down by the security guard of another teenager, Shoaib Naveed, after an altercation between the two outside a restaurant in the upscale Defence Housing Authority neighbourhood on April 27.
The deceased’s father, Talib Suhail, had registered a murder case under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 114 (abettor present when offence is committed) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code, naming Naveed, his father, Naveed Ahmed, their guard, Amal Rehman, and others as accused.
In August, the victim’s father approached the high court seeking direction for the police chief to re-investigate the murder case with a team of ‘honest’ police officers.
He alleged that the police official investigating the case had concealed crucial circumstantial evidence from the Anti-Terrorism Court conducting the trial.
In his plea, he claimed that the IO had obtained two compact disks containing video footage of the incident captured by the close-circuit cameras in the DHA, but he did not produce the same as evidence in the court.
Secondly, the investigation team threatened independent eyewitnesses, including Akhtar, Sadaqat and Qari Aslam, who then disappeared.
“From the photographs taken during the post-mortem, it was clear that in addition to the bullet marks on the chest, there was a visible mark of a sharp-edged weapon on the left side of the face,” he argued.
But, the police are deliberately trying to distort the evidence to benefit the accused party.
The court was pleaded to order the IG to constitute an inquiry committee, comprising honest officers, to investigate the murder case.
On Monday, the lawyer requested the court to fix an early date for the hearing. In response, the bench, headed by Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai, fixed October 7 as the date.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 1st, 2013.
The Sindh High Court (SHC) allowed on Monday the application seeking urgent hearing of the petition requiring re-investigation into the Hamza Ahmed murder, and fixed October 7 the next date of hearing.
The 17-year-old O levels student was allegedly gunned down by the security guard of another teenager, Shoaib Naveed, after an altercation between the two outside a restaurant in the upscale Defence Housing Authority neighbourhood on April 27.
The deceased’s father, Talib Suhail, had registered a murder case under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 114 (abettor present when offence is committed) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code, naming Naveed, his father, Naveed Ahmed, their guard, Amal Rehman, and others as accused.
In August, the victim’s father approached the high court seeking direction for the police chief to re-investigate the murder case with a team of ‘honest’ police officers.
He alleged that the police official investigating the case had concealed crucial circumstantial evidence from the Anti-Terrorism Court conducting the trial.
In his plea, he claimed that the IO had obtained two compact disks containing video footage of the incident captured by the close-circuit cameras in the DHA, but he did not produce the same as evidence in the court.
Secondly, the investigation team threatened independent eyewitnesses, including Akhtar, Sadaqat and Qari Aslam, who then disappeared.
“From the photographs taken during the post-mortem, it was clear that in addition to the bullet marks on the chest, there was a visible mark of a sharp-edged weapon on the left side of the face,” he argued.
But, the police are deliberately trying to distort the evidence to benefit the accused party.
The court was pleaded to order the IG to constitute an inquiry committee, comprising honest officers, to investigate the murder case.
On Monday, the lawyer requested the court to fix an early date for the hearing. In response, the bench, headed by Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai, fixed October 7 as the date.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 1st, 2013.