KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court on Monday expressed extreme displeasure over the absence of police investigation officer in a case pertaining to Safoora Goth massacre.
During the retrial of Safoora Goth massacre case, the prosecutor apprise the court that the investigation officer, DSP Khalid Khan was on leave.
It is pertinent to mention here that the court had served a show cause notice on the investigation officer for his continuous absence, but he once again did not appear before the court.
However the court had restricted the police to arrest co-accused Naeem Sajid and Sultan Qammar in Safoora Goth massacre case. The suspect were facing charges of providing weapons to the killers of Safoora Goth massacre.
Earlier a military court had awarded death sentences to five suspects involved in Safoora Goth massacre.
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According to ISPR, the five convicts, Tahir Hussain Minhas s/o Khadim Hussain Minhas, Saad Aziz s/o Abdul Aziz Sheikh, Asad ur Rehman s/o Atique ur Rehman, Hafiz Nasir s/o Afzal Ahmed and Muhammad Azhar Ishrat S/O Ishrat Rasheed Ahmed, were tried in a military court. They were active members of Al-Qaeda.
They had confessed to committing the high-profile crimes, before trial court, of shooting dead Sabeen Mahmud, Safoora Chowrangi carnage, bomb blast near Saleh mosque and attacking law enforcement agencies.
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