Name of the witness was not disclosed. PHOTO: FILE
An eyewitness has identified suspect Kazim Abbas Rizvi, as the killer of a senior lawyer, Naimat Ali Randhawa.
The witness, whose name has not been disclosed due to security concerns, identified the suspect among the ‘dummies’ during an identification parade conducted by the judicial magistrate Central, Akbar Ali, on Saturday. The eyewitness identified the suspect, as the person who had shot gunfires on the car of the lawyer, who had later succumbed to wounds. Later, the suspect was driven back under tight security cover.
The police said that Naimat Ali Randhawa and his son Tauqeer Ali Randhawa were shot in Nazimabad by unidentified assailants while they were going home on September 26. A single bullet took away the life of a lawyer who had previously served as special public prosecutor in the anti-terrorism courts and was the president of the Pakistan Muslim League-N lawyers’ wing.
Making headway in the case earlier this week, Karachi police chief Shaukat Hayat had disclosed the arrest of the suspect Rizvi claiming that he belongs to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. The lawyer was recently involved in the high-profile murder trial of Geo TV reporter Wali Khan Babar, in which six people involved have already been killed.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 6th, 2013.
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