Staying put: IHC dismisses terror suspect’s bail plea
Shoaib Andarabi was arrested for possessing weapons, explosive toys.
A file photo of Islamabad police. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge, Justice Noorul Haq N Qureshi on Wednesday dismissed the post-arrest bail plea of Shoaib Andarabi, a suspected terrorist who was arrested by the Islamabad Police in September from Sector G-15/1.
Police had recovered a large stockpile of weapons including four remote-controlled planes filled with explosives from the possession of Andarabi — a nephew of Asiya Anderabi, founder and chairperson of Dukhtaran-i-Millat (Daughters of the Nation), a separatist group associated with the All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Indian Kashmir.
During the raid on the suspected terrorist hide-out, the suspect’s nephews Irtiyaz Gillani and Dr Mujahid Gillani managed to escape.
During the course of hearing, the petitioner’s counsel maintained that the police had wrongly implicated his client under sections of the law pertaining to attempt to murder, abetment in crime, possessing explosive material and illegal weapons.
According to him, his client was not involved in any criminal activity at all and argued that the police had registered an FIR without recording statements of eyewitnesses, which he claimed was illegal.
Andrabi, an engineering student at International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), has been in Adiala jail after a lower court rejected an earlier bail application.
According to the police, they had recovered a large amount of weapons and ammunition from his possession and suspected that he belonged to a militant organisation.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2013.
Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge, Justice Noorul Haq N Qureshi on Wednesday dismissed the post-arrest bail plea of Shoaib Andarabi, a suspected terrorist who was arrested by the Islamabad Police in September from Sector G-15/1.
Police had recovered a large stockpile of weapons including four remote-controlled planes filled with explosives from the possession of Andarabi — a nephew of Asiya Anderabi, founder and chairperson of Dukhtaran-i-Millat (Daughters of the Nation), a separatist group associated with the All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Indian Kashmir.
During the raid on the suspected terrorist hide-out, the suspect’s nephews Irtiyaz Gillani and Dr Mujahid Gillani managed to escape.
During the course of hearing, the petitioner’s counsel maintained that the police had wrongly implicated his client under sections of the law pertaining to attempt to murder, abetment in crime, possessing explosive material and illegal weapons.
According to him, his client was not involved in any criminal activity at all and argued that the police had registered an FIR without recording statements of eyewitnesses, which he claimed was illegal.
Andrabi, an engineering student at International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), has been in Adiala jail after a lower court rejected an earlier bail application.
According to the police, they had recovered a large amount of weapons and ammunition from his possession and suspected that he belonged to a militant organisation.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2013.