An anti-terror court agreed on Saturday to hear murder and terrorism charges against six soldiers and a civilian over the killing of an unarmed man in a park that shocked the nation.
Rangers shot dead Sarfaraz Shah in Karachi on June 8 after he was accused of robbery. The killing was filmed by a television cameraman and subsequently broadcast around-the-clock on national television channels. Public prosecutor Arshad Iqbal Cheema told AFP: “We have formally charged the six Rangers personnel and a civilian for murder and terrorism and have submitted our charge sheet to the judge of the anti-terrorism court.”
Cheema said investigators had gathered forensic and chemical reports and also had the footage of the killing checked by experts who verified it as a genuine, unedited and unaltered film. “We have two eye-witnesses who were present on the scene, besides 44 including the experts and officials involved in the case investigation,” he said.