Suspect accused of killing Central jail’s deputy superintendent Amanullah Khan Niazi, five others in 2006.
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Central Jail’s deputy superintendent Niazi, his brother, Habibullah, three policemen, including his driver Akhtar Hussain and two guards, Sabir and Shafi, were shot dead by assailants riding on motorcycles near Mobile Market, Saddar on June 15, 2006. A pedestrian was also killed in the ambush.
The investigation officer sought a no-objection certificate from a South district’s judicial magistrate who remanded Saeed to prison in an illicit weapon case sometime back.
The investigation officer contended that the suspect was nominated as an absconder in the supplementary charge sheet submitted to an anti-terrorism court in April 2015, following the arrest and revelation of a suspected target killer, Ubaid Khursheed alias K2, who allegedly took part in the killing.
Khursheed was apprehended in the March 11, 2015 raid at Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) headquarters, Nine Zero.
The charge sheet quoted him saying that Niazi was targeted on the orders of Saeed for not facilitating jail inmates belonging to the MQM, which included Saulat Ali Khan alias Saulat Mirza, ‘according to their will.’
The investigation officer said that Saeed was needed to be interrogated in the case for his alleged key role.
The magistrate approved the plea, asking jail authorities to allow investigators access to the suspect for questioning.
Currently, four suspects, Khursheed, Chaudhary Sajjad, Tanveer alias Chand and Abu Irfan, are facing trial while around dozen are absconding.
Saeed will be the fifth suspect to be tried in the case.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 1st, 2016.
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