The Sindh High Court on Thursday set aside the conviction of deputy chief of the Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Alami, Mohammad Haneef, in the Marina Club car bombing case and ordered his release, if not required in any other case. Tried and sentenced to a total of 39 years in prison with a fine of Rs one million by an anti-terrorism court on December 21, 2002, Haneef had appealed against his conviction in the SHC. His counsel Abdul Waheed Katpar argued that the prosecution presented 'set-up' witnesses in the trial court, which relied upon their evidence and convicted his client for a crime he had not committed. Hitting out at the legal defects in the procedure of identification of the appellant, Katpar argued that the identification was conducted after two weeks of the Haneef's arrest. There was every possibility that the police had shown his client to the witnesses before the identification parade in the presence of a judicial magistrate, he said. He said the identification parade lost its evidentiary value, since Haneef's photos had been published much before an identification parade.