Killed at the cinema: Court accepts final charge-sheet against suspects

Police submitted the final charge-sheet before Justice Shabbir Ahmed Channa, a judicial magistrate in district South.

Police submitted the final charge-sheet before Justice Shabbir Ahmed Channa, a judicial magistrate in district South.

KARACHI:


A district and sessions court accepted the final charge-sheet on Thursday in the murder case of a security guard of the Nueplex cinema.



Muhammad Favian Khawaja, stepson of Balochistan’s former governor Zulfiqar Ali Magsi, his friend, Aurangzaib, and a security guard, Afsar Khan, have been booked and arrested for the murder of a 35-year-old security guard, Asif, outside the cinema in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA). Asif was shot dead when he was performing his duty at the cinema in DHA Phase-VIII.

The police submitted the final charge-sheet before Justice Shabbir Ahmed Channa, a judicial magistrate in district South.

While declaring it unintentional murder, the police added sections 319 (Punishment for qatl-i-khata), 322 (qatl-bi-sabab), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of Rs50) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code against the suspects.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 31st, 2014.
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