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| Judgment reserved in Allama Turabi murder case |
| 2010-09-26 |
| [Pak Daily Times] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday after recording the arguments of defence and prosecution reserved the judgment of the suicide kaboom case on Allama Hasan Turabi until September 30. ATC No III judge Anand Ram Hotwani proceeded the case inside the Central Prison, Karachi in the presence the alleged accused Sultan Mahmood alias Saifullah, Mohammad Amin alias Khalid Shaheen, Mohammad Akbar, Mohammad Rehman, Ashfaq Qureshi and Raheemullah alias Ali Hasan. Abdul Waheed Katper, defence counsel of the three accused Muhammad Amin, Sultan Mahmood and Muhammad Rehman, stated that the suspects' confessions have not been recorded on oath and should be excluded. The prosecution also tried to prove that the suspects were muscle of banned religious outfit Harkatul Mujahideen which was not true, he added. He pleaded that the court should release the suspects under the benefit of doubt. Counsel of another accused Raheemullah, Advocate Nasir Mughal stated that the prosecution could not prove the offence. Defence counsel of suspect Ashfaq Qureshi and Akbar Khan, Maqbool-ur-Rahman during the last hearing, said that the prosecution had examined more than 30 witnesses but none of them had deposed against his clients. He alleged that the motorcycle used in the crime was not the one recovered from the accused since it had a different registration number. Special public prosecutor Naimat Ali Randhawa withheld the pleas of the defence counsels and stated that the suspects had voluntarily recorded their confessional statements in which they disclosed the roles of co-accused Akbar, Ashfiq and Raheemullah before the court of a judicial magistrate. Pleading for award of capital punishment to the accused, he said that the prosecution witnesses had implicated them and the prosecution had successfully proven the case. |
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