ASI Wassan’s ‘murderers’ sent on judicial remand
National
December 23, 2020
SUKKUR: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Tuesday sent the alleged murderers of ASI Bilal Wassan on judicial remand after the 14-day extended physical remand in Khairpur.
The police had requested the judge to provide 14 more days physical remand of the accused Sarfaraz Rajput, his father Zahid Hussain Rajput and Syed Saqlain Shah to investigate the whereabouts of three unidentified co-accused nominated in the FIR. The defence counsels argued that the police had been torturing their clients to implicate three specific persons, whose names were given by the police. They also requested the judge to send the alleged murderers to jail because they apprehended their murder. The ATC had sent the accused to Central Jail, Khairpur, on judicial remand.
National
December 15, 2020
SUKKUR: The investigation officer (IO), SI Zulfiqar Qureshi, in the murder of ASI Bilal Wasan on Monday, produced the accused Sarfaraz Rajput, his father Zahid Hussain Rajput and Syed Saqlain Shah before the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC), Khairpur, and sought physical remand of the accused.
The investigation officer requested Judge Inam Ali Malik of ATC to provide 14 more days physical remand of the accused to investigate about three unidentified co-accused nominated in the FIR. The counsels of the accused told the judge that the police had been torturing them to implicate three specific persons, whose names were given by the police in the case. They requested the judge to send them to jail because they apprehended their murder. The ATC judge has remanded the accused for two more days.