KARAHCI: A judicial magistrate extended on Monday the police remand of five Afghan aliens and two others till Jan 8 and transferred the investigation of the case to the Federal Investigation Agency.
The five illegal Afghan immigrants and two agents — Ijaz Ahmed and Mohammad Qasim — were arrested on Jan 3 in the SITE area and they were remanded in police custody on the following day.
The police produced them in court on Monday and sought an extension in their remand on the ground that three absconding officials of the National Database and Registration Authority — Nadeem, Zafar and Khair Mohammad — were yet to be arrested.
Judicial Magistrate Sohail Ahmed Mashori observed that the alleged nexus of criminals and Nadra officials in issuance of Pakistani identity cards to foreign nationals was tantamount to jeopardise the already fragile security environment of the country.He also expressed dissatisfaction over the police for not applying proper law in the FIR of the case and said that Section 5 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 be incorporated in the case.
Since the Nadra officials in question belonged to the federal government, therefore, the FIA has the mandate to investigate the case, the magistrate ruled.
While extending the remand of the suspects till Jan 8, the court directed the police to hand over the case papers and custody to the FIA.
According to the prosecution, both the agents in collision with the absconding Nadra officials made computerised national identity cards for illegal immigrants through fake record and scores of such CNICs had been found in the custody of the held suspects.
They were booked under Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing deliver of property), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the SITE-B police station.
The Afghans were also booked under the Foreigners’ Act.
Mauripur rape, killing case
An anti-terrorism court on Monday remanded another suspect in police custody till Jan 14 in a case pertaining to the killing of four members of a family after subjecting female victims to a sexual assault in Mauripur.
The suspect, Abdul Basit, was arrested on Jan 5 and the police produced him before the judge of the ATC-II for remand.
The court remanded him in police custody till Jan 14.
Suspects Adil and Yasin have already been in remanded in police custody for allegedly killing Muzaffar Beg, his wife and their eight-year-old son and 27-year-old adopted son after subjecting the female victim and her 18-year-old daughter to a sexual assault on the night of Dec 28 in Mauripur.
A case (FIR 459/13) was registered under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 324 (attempted murder), 365 (kidnapping), 376 (punishment for rape) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 at the Mauripur police station.
Abdul Rasheed alias Manzoor Baloch, Mehar Bakhsh, Nazir Baloch and three to four unknown person were shown as absconding accused in the case.
Remand extended
A judicial magistrate extended on Monday the police remand of a son of a former governor of Balochistan and two others in a murder case till Jan 8.
Fabiyan Magsi, his friend Aurangzeb Mehmood and Afsar Khan, a guard of a cinema, were in police custody since Dec 27, 2013 and the police produced them before the court of a judicial magistrate and sought an extension in their remand.
The magistrate granted a two-day extension in their remand.
According to the prosecution, Fabiyan, who was shown in the FIR a son of former Balochistan governor Zulfiqar Magsi, along with his friend came at a cinema in Defence Housing Authority on Dec 27, 2013, where a scuffle broke out when the guards tried to stop them from entering the cinema without tickets.
The suspects used foul language, smashed windowpanes and vehicles and gunned down security guard Mohammad Asif Aziz after snatching a gun from another security guard Afsar Khan, it added.