'Extrajudicial' killing: SHC reissues notice to taxi driver's widow
A head constable records statement about case property.
Photo of Rangers personnel. PHOTO: AFP
KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) repeated notice on Thursday to the widow of Mureed Ali alias Murad Ali, a 36-year-old taxi driver, allegedly murdered by the Rangers personnel in an extrajudicial manner in 2013.
Lance Naik Ghulam Rasool approached the high court against the decision of the ATC-I, which had dismissed his application for the transfer of trial to the sessions' court. The police had arrested Lance Naiks, Ghulam Rasool and Barkat Ali, and sepoys, Waqar Ahmed and Qadeer Abbas, for their alleged involvement in the killing of the taxi driver in Gulistan-e-Jauhar on July 16, 2013.
Later, investigators submitted a charge-sheet before the trial court against Rasool, saying he killed the driver accidentally and unintentionally in an attempt to stop the taxi driver. Rasool argued that the act allegedly committed by him is not an act of terrorism, but a mistake.
His lawyer, Shoukat Hayat, had claimed that the police had inserted section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 after the then chief justice of Pakistan took notice of the incident, adding that the suspect's act does not fall within the ambit of terror, therefore, the trial must be transferred from the anti-terrorism court to the sessions court.
On Thursday, the court was informed that the notice previously issued to the victim's widow could not be served. The bench repeated notice to the widow to file her comments by the next date of hearing.
Prosecution witness records statement
A prosecution witness recorded on Thursday his statement in the taxi driver murder case before an anti-terrorism court (ATC). The witness, who is a head constable, told the court that he went to the place of incident and collected case property. The police official said that he had seized four SMGs, 113 bullets (alive) and impounded the taxi and took everything to the police station. Subsequently, a memo of seizure was prepared and the case property was handed over to the investigation officer, he added. The ATC-I adjourned the case till the next date of hearing.
The Sindh High Court (SHC) repeated notice on Thursday to the widow of Mureed Ali alias Murad Ali, a 36-year-old taxi driver, allegedly murdered by the Rangers personnel in an extrajudicial manner in 2013.
Lance Naik Ghulam Rasool approached the high court against the decision of the ATC-I, which had dismissed his application for the transfer of trial to the sessions' court. The police had arrested Lance Naiks, Ghulam Rasool and Barkat Ali, and sepoys, Waqar Ahmed and Qadeer Abbas, for their alleged involvement in the killing of the taxi driver in Gulistan-e-Jauhar on July 16, 2013.
Later, investigators submitted a charge-sheet before the trial court against Rasool, saying he killed the driver accidentally and unintentionally in an attempt to stop the taxi driver. Rasool argued that the act allegedly committed by him is not an act of terrorism, but a mistake.
His lawyer, Shoukat Hayat, had claimed that the police had inserted section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 after the then chief justice of Pakistan took notice of the incident, adding that the suspect's act does not fall within the ambit of terror, therefore, the trial must be transferred from the anti-terrorism court to the sessions court.
On Thursday, the court was informed that the notice previously issued to the victim's widow could not be served. The bench repeated notice to the widow to file her comments by the next date of hearing.
Prosecution witness records statement
A prosecution witness recorded on Thursday his statement in the taxi driver murder case before an anti-terrorism court (ATC). The witness, who is a head constable, told the court that he went to the place of incident and collected case property. The police official said that he had seized four SMGs, 113 bullets (alive) and impounded the taxi and took everything to the police station. Subsequently, a memo of seizure was prepared and the case property was handed over to the investigation officer, he added. The ATC-I adjourned the case till the next date of hearing.