Further delays: Abro submits no-confidence motion to judge

KARACHI:

Salman Abro and his guards, booked for killing a teenager, re-posed their no confidence motion to the anti-terrorism court judge hearing them on Monday.

Abro, the son of a high ranking police officer, along with his guards, has been accused of killing 18-year-old Suleman Lashari, an O’ Levels student, by firing at his house in May last year.

The ATC-III was meant to record statements of the witnesses in the case but the hearing took another turn as the accused submitted their motion of no-confidence on the judge, Justice Saleem Raza Baloch. The prosecution stepped in and argued that the defense wanted to delay the case by using such tactics.

"The accused have been trying to delay the trial since its commencement," said Mubashir Ali Mirza, a special public prosecutor. He told The Express Tribune that as many as two dozen applications were filed in the past in the same context.

The judge, adjourning the hearing till May 30, asked the defense to approach the Sindh High Court if they believed he was being biased in the case and get an order to transfer the case to another ATC from there.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 19^th, 2015.