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| Sabzazar shootout case: Anti-terror court issues warrants for Shahbaz Sharif |
| 2007-09-08 |
| An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday issued arrest warrants for former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif when he returns to Pakistan as he had been declared a court absconder in the Sabzazar shootout case. The court asked the Sabzazar police station house officer (SHO) to submit the details of Shahbaz’s property in court till September 12. On Friday, prosecutor Muhammad Sultan Masood told the court that Shahbaz had already been declared a proclaimed offender and he would be arrested on his arrival in Pakistan for production in court. On an application for confiscation of Shahbaz’s property, the court issued notice to the SHO, who sought time to submit a detailed report on the matter. Saeeduddin, the complainant in the case, moved two petitions seeking the arrest of Shahbaz on his arrival on September 10 and for the confiscation of his property as the court had declared him a proclaimed offender. According to the First Information Report (FIR), Assistant Sub-Inspector Lala Roshan raided Saeeduddin’s house on April 21, 1998, and took his son Salahuddin to the police station. ASI Roshan demanded Rs 5,000 for Salahuddin’s release, which his father did not pay. The ASI later handed over Salahuddin to then Muslim Town SHO Babar Ashraf who allegedly demanded Rs 200,000 from Saeeduddin for his son’s release. Saeeduddin said that he came to know that his son and four others – Wakeel, Waseem, Haider and Abdur Rauf – had been killed in a police encounter through a newspaper report on April 27, 1998. He alleged that Shahbaz Sharif had ordered the police to kill his son. |
| Posted by:Fred |