KARACHI: On Tuesday, a sessions court acquitted former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Saleem Shahzad owing to the lack of evidence in the fourth case lodged during the early 1990s pertaining to rioting and arson attack.
Syed Saleem-ul-Haq, commonly known as Saleem Shahzad, was charged for his alleged involvement in arson attack and rioting in 1992 at Landhi police station.
The additional district and sessions judge (East) Shabana Waheed exonerated the former MQM leader after recording evidence of witnesses and concluding arguments from both sides.
The sessions court has already acquitted Saleem Shahzad in three other cases lodged at the Landhi and Malir police stations in 1992 which included murder, kidnapping of two workers of Mohajir Qaumi Movement, attacking the house of Afaq Ahmed as well as criminal coercion and rioting.
Saleem Shahzad was apparently booked along with certain other politicians in a case pertaining to providing shelter and treatment to alleged terrorists at Dr. Asim Hussain’s hospital and was arrested from the Karachi airport following his return to Pakistan in February last year.
Later in March, however, an antiterrorism court granted him bail, but police had also shown him arrested in four other cases lodged in 1992 at Malir and Landhi police stations. Later, he was released on bail.
Now, Mr. Shahzad along with former petroleum minister Dr. Asim Hussain, Pak Sarzameen Party President Anis Qaimkhani, Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar, MQM-P lawmaker Rauf Siddiqui, PPP’s Abdul Qadir Patel and Usman Moazzam of Pasban are facing trial before an antiterrorism court for allegedly providing shelter and treatment to alleged terrorists.
An undertrial prisoner managed to escape from the premises of City Courts on Tuesday.
The jail authorities brought the UTP Mohammad Asif to the judicial lockup in City Courts and produced him before a court in a bounced cheque case lodged at the Darakshan police station.
An official at the City Courts police station said that after the hearing the UTP, who was reportedly not properly handcuffed, was allowed to meet his relatives on the courts premises.
However, he managed to abscond from the courts and the policemen escorting him initially had no knowledge about this incident, it added.
He further added by saying that the escaped UTP was also facing trial in around a dozen cases, adding that police constables Abdul Rauf, Khizar Hayat and Fahad Ali, who were escorting the UTP, were taken into custody for their negligence.
A case was registered against detained policemen and escaped UTP under Sections 223 (escape from custody negligently suffered by public servant), 224 (resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension), 225 (resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person) and 225-A (omission to apprehend or sufferance of escape on the part of public servant in cases not otherwise provided for) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the City Courts police station.
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