Second witness identifies MQM man in Randhawa murder case
Kazim Abbas Rizvi has also named his partners, police confirm.
The suspect is affiliated with MQM’s unit-178. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
KARACHI:
A second eyewitness identified suspect Kazim Abbas Rizvi in the Anti-Terrorism court in Karachi as the killer of senior lawyer, Naimat Ali Randhawa, Express News reported on Thursday.
The name of the witness has not been disclosed due to security reasons.
Additional Inspector General (AIG) of Sindh Police Shahid Hayat had earlier stated, "The suspect is affiliated with MQM’s unit-178 and has been identified as Kazim Abbas Rizvi, son of Syed Muhammad Abbas Rizvi."
An eyewitness had previously identified suspect Kazim Abbas Rizvi, as the killer of a senior lawyer, Naimat Ali Randhawa on October 5.
The witness identified the suspect among the ‘dummies’ during an identification parade conducted by the judicial magistrate Central, Akbar Ali. The eyewitness identified the suspect, as the person who had shot on the car of the lawyer, who had later succumbed to wounds.
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.
AIG Hayat had said that the arrested had confessed to murdering Randhawa with assistance from a few other individuals, besides admitting to seven other instances of murder.
Hayat had further explained that initial interrogations yielded the impression that the motive behind the killing was connected with the murder case of Wali Khan Babar, a journalist who worked for the television channel ‘Geo News’ and was gunned down in Liaquatabad, Karachi, on January 2011.
He had ruled out any sectarian dimension to the murder, terming it specifically as “politically motivated targeted killing”.
The AIG had stated that the arrest was made possible through the joint efforts of police and Rangers, and that raids were underway for arrests of four other criminals that the murderer claimed to have been complicit in the crime.
“Kazim Abbas Rizvi has named his partners, and we are conducting raids to find them. I assure you we won’t let them get away,” AIG Hayat had said.
A second eyewitness identified suspect Kazim Abbas Rizvi in the Anti-Terrorism court in Karachi as the killer of senior lawyer, Naimat Ali Randhawa, Express News reported on Thursday.
The name of the witness has not been disclosed due to security reasons.
Additional Inspector General (AIG) of Sindh Police Shahid Hayat had earlier stated, "The suspect is affiliated with MQM’s unit-178 and has been identified as Kazim Abbas Rizvi, son of Syed Muhammad Abbas Rizvi."
An eyewitness had previously identified suspect Kazim Abbas Rizvi, as the killer of a senior lawyer, Naimat Ali Randhawa on October 5.
The witness identified the suspect among the ‘dummies’ during an identification parade conducted by the judicial magistrate Central, Akbar Ali. The eyewitness identified the suspect, as the person who had shot on the car of the lawyer, who had later succumbed to wounds.
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.
AIG Hayat had said that the arrested had confessed to murdering Randhawa with assistance from a few other individuals, besides admitting to seven other instances of murder.
Hayat had further explained that initial interrogations yielded the impression that the motive behind the killing was connected with the murder case of Wali Khan Babar, a journalist who worked for the television channel ‘Geo News’ and was gunned down in Liaquatabad, Karachi, on January 2011.
He had ruled out any sectarian dimension to the murder, terming it specifically as “politically motivated targeted killing”.
The AIG had stated that the arrest was made possible through the joint efforts of police and Rangers, and that raids were underway for arrests of four other criminals that the murderer claimed to have been complicit in the crime.
“Kazim Abbas Rizvi has named his partners, and we are conducting raids to find them. I assure you we won’t let them get away,” AIG Hayat had said.