KARACHI: The Sindh High Court acquitted on Thursday appellant Sabir Ali Waseem from charges of firing a rocket at Government Commerce College in the limits of Artillery Maidan police station back in 2001. Sabir Ali was awarded an aggregate of 30 years of imprisonment by an anti-terrorism court in April 2003. According to the prosecution, the appellant had confessed that he wanted to hit the Sheraton hotel in the vicinity, but missed the target and hit Government Commerce College instead.He was awarded 10 years imprisonment each on three counts which the court had ordered to be run concurrently. Sabir challenged his conviction and sentence in the Sindh High Court. The anti-terrorism appellate bench of the SHC comprising Justice Rehmat Hussain Jaferi and Justice Ali Sain Dino Metlo after hearing the arguments of the counsel for the appellant and state acquitted the appellant from charges through a short order the reason for which would be recorded later.
| I'm sure the learned judges can think of some reason for letting him go. |